In his words to the painters, sculptors, architects, writers, musicians, directors and actors from more than 30 countries, present from 9:30 local time in the Sistine Chapel, the Supreme Pontiff affirmed that “we need the principle of harmony to dwell more in our world, and to expel uniformity”.

“You, the artists, can help us to make room for the spirit” whose work, he said, “is to create the harmony of differences, not to destroy them, not to standardize them, but to harmonize them” because “then we understand what beauty is”.

From Latin America were invited, among others, the Brazilian singer-songwriter, musician, filmmaker and poet Caetano Veloso, as well as the Cuban painter, sculptor and engraver Alexis Leiva Machado (Kcho).

“We human beings long for a new world that we will not fully see with our own eyes, but we desire it, we seek it, we dream it” and “artists, then, have the ability to dream new versions of the world. And this is important: new versions of the world. The ability to introduce novelty into history,” the Pope said.

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