“The vision is rather of the artist, as physical and embodied, set in the midst of a God-given world vibrant with a dynamic beauty of its own, not simply "there" like a brute fact to be escaped or violently abused but there as a gift from a God of overflowing beauty, a gift for us to interact with vigorously, shape and reshape, form and transform, and in this way fashion something as consistent and dazzlingly novel as the Goldberg Variations, art that can anticipate the beauty previewed and promised in Jesus Christ.”

“What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?”

“I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it.”

“Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him”

“Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death.The gift of art is a superior gift that allows you to enter into the unknown of the before and into the ignored of the affair, in the world of dreams and meditation.There are no schools in there are poets.The true artist understand all the ways and finds beauty in all forms. All the glory and eternity are in your conscience.”

“Hope is a most beautiful drug.”

“Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.”