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 

...the meaning of life and art...

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."  
Marc Chagall

Luther's dictum on the poor and beauty

“The poor need beauty as much as bread because they live in the midst of ugliness.”

N.T. Wright on art, excerpt from Surprised by Hope

"To make sense of and celebrate a beautiful world through the production of artifacts that are themselves beautiful is part of the call to be stewards of creation, as was Adam's naming of the animals. Genuine art is thus itself a response to the beauty of creation, which itself is a pointer to the beauty of God."

Excerpt from Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright, a New Testament scholar and the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England