An artist must have the conception of what he intends to make within himself, be it a picture, carving, music or anything else, it must be there in his own mind complete. The making of it in paint or stone or wood or sound is a little image of the Incarnation, the "Word made flesh." When it is made, its validity as a work of art depends upon whether others recognize in it the expression of something that is inarticulate in themselves.
-- Caryll Houselander (above), from an upublished speech to the Catholic Evidence Guild
I found this remarkable little picture book on the $.25 table at the library. An excerpt:
An artist is like God, but small.
He can't see out of God's creation, for it includes him. . . .
An artist spends his life not only wondering,
but wanting to work like God with what he can command:
his paints.
He tries go copy God's creations.
He tries to shape beauty with his hand.
He tries to make order out of nature . . . .
An artist is like God
as God created him. . . .
he tries to make paint sing.
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