“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.” HumansArtStoriesHateEvilJesusArt IsBuiltThemeGood And EvilLife And DeathUglinessLove And Hate Author:John Ortberg
“The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.” ArtValuesBornResultsArt IsBuiltIntuitionIntuitiveApprehensionTuition Author:Ben Shahn
“The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.” ArtUseLightPaintingArt IsBuiltWindowTemplesSignificanceSculptureBorrowing Author:J. G. Holland
“Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.” IfsArtTwoEndsKnowingPlansDangerBecomingArt IsBuiltExperimentsCraftsObsessedExperimental Science Author:Martin Lewis Perl
“My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.” WantMeanArtMadeUnderstandingGrowthCitiesArt IsBuiltStonesAppearanceDeeperWoodsSurfaceParksDeeper Understanding Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.” ThinkingMenWantArtReasonRealityGivenAnswersHighestArt IsBuiltElementals Author:Pope Benedict XVI