That art shit I was talking about...
Here is some -- just some -- of the crap I've been working on in oils. Mind you these are only about 5 of the 13 or so I have going all simultaneously. I'm never finished and always repainting them. I'm generally disappointed with 95% of my paintings as not living up to my potential
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The (mis)quote is biblical, yeah. When the Rabbi and others in thew temples were arguing whether it was acceptable in the eyes of God to be paying tribute to Caesar, the Christ asked them whose face was upon the coin they held in their hands. When the religious admitted Caesar's face was upon the coin the Christ was quoted as saying, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's"
I hadn't considered that it might be about renunciation of worldly pleasures when I read it though it rings true. When I'd interpreted it for myself--and I'm no biblophile, scholar, nor am I even religious--I'd imagined it was a lesson to the religious that though their souls my belong to God; they still had responsibilities in this world. Unless they were going to wander into the desert* so long as they took advantage of Caesar's cities and amenities then they indeed owed him the tax they were arguing over.
With what you said, I sort of interpret it differently now. Thanks. Something fun to mull over when I'm painting him... coin in mouth.
*grin
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