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