“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.”

“A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.”

“Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear lady?”

“Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”

“What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful”