Creativity...

"Creativity is contagious, pass it on."

Albert Einstein

...beauty is God's handwriting.

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God's colors all are fast.

“Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.”
John Greenleaf Whittier

Art enables us to find ourselves...

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Thomas Merton

Everybody needs beauty...

“Everybody needs beauty...places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.”
John Muir

Earth's crammed with heaven...

“Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

...it is what you see that matters...

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” 
Henry David Thoreau 

The artist is a channel...

“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.” 
Piet Mondrian 

...the human heart yearns for the beautiful...

"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike." 
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God...

"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."
Augustine

Painting is the grandchild of nature...

“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.” 
Rembrandt

The best and most beautiful things...

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller

...love is the beauty of the soul.

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
Augustine

Image of God...

"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."
Mary Daly

God's creative pulse...

"We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself."
Joseph Chilton Pearce

You can't encounter beauty without responding...

"When we encounter the beauty of God, art is what comes out of us...You can't encounter beauty without responding...When we encounter beauty, we reflect beauty."
Stephen Roach on the relationship between faith and art.

Beauty nourishes the soul...

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground - trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food.

"Not only do our bodies have a physical need for nourishment but our souls have a spiritual need for beauty"
Stephen Roach on the relationship between faith and art.

Beauty is not democratic...

"Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many."
C.S. Lewis

Beauty in Christ...

"If you see any beauty in Christ, and say, "I desire to have that," God will work it in you."
G.V. Wigram

Beautiful music...

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther

...where all the beauty came from.

"It was when I was happiest that I longed most. The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to find the place where all the beauty came from."
C.S. Lewis

The duty of an artist...

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”  
Schumann 

In Art...

“ In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

About Art...

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.”  
Auguste Rodin