“Life is not always deep, mostly it's just random. But it’s different in art. In art you can choose to show some things and hide others. And suddenly there's meaning to find in the chaos.”

“I'm beginning to see that there's a difference between art that trusts beauty's simple power to point people to God and Christian art that's consciously propagandistic. My Uncle Kenny, with whom I spent most of my time in Italy, said something profound--that you can make art about the Light, or you can make art that shows what the Light reveals about the world.”

“There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.”

“This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”

“Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.”

“Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.”