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That moral standards be subject to a spirituality – that is, to an internal rule – has already been argued for by Maurice Bellet. The detour by the genesis of abstract art provides parallel confirmation of this point. It remains to be known how – and if – art can make a direct contribution to morality. One might expect that the artist who proposes a particular itinerary or pathway would sketch for us the way of composition; in return, the artist offers us a rhythm and a tempo, far from any kind of haste, for in the final analysis, as Kandinsky said, “every serious artwork is calm.” To pacify the moral life, against the notion of art as incomprehensible, provocative, and gratuitous, one must privilege the function of art as ‘useful creation.’