Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Art is spiritual.
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
Art gives people a reason to be alive.
Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.