...God is a great lover of beauty...

 "...God is a great lover of beauty, as we can see from the collection of his work that hangs in the gallery of the universe. Form is as important to him as function. Thus it was not enough for the tabernacle to be laid out in the right way; it also had to be beautiful. There was beauty in the color of the fabrics, the sparkle of the gems, the shapes of its objects, and the symmetry of its proportions. The tabernacle was a thing of beauty. God made sure of this by taking the unprecedented step of endowing its artists with the gift of his Spirit. All of this tells us something about what kind of artist God is: an artist who loves beauty."

Art for God's Sake - Philip Graham Ryken

Beauty is a promise...

Beauty is a promise that what is torn can be made whole, that we are living toward a God whose power is not the power of antiseptic justice but the power of the place where justice and beauty meet. 

Stephanie Gehring

Where we see beauty, we encounter God

 "Beauty always points us to the reality and presence of God. Whether we see that in a piece of art or in nature, where we see beauty, we encounter God. 

Margaret Campbell

Everybody needs beauty...

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
John Muir

God's beauty...

"Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are."
Sue Monk Kidd

God speaks to us every hour...

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." 
George Washington Carver

The true work of art...

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo

Art is a collaboration...

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." Andre Gide

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