Craig Thompson Quotes

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

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.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

I love what I live, and I live Islam, so I applied it to everything I do. I applied it to my rhymes, and I felt that I wanted the people to know what I knew.

I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

It has always been my belief that creation, the making of 'art' in any medium or combination of mediums, is a holy act.

Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.

Overall, everyone has been respectful of my boundaries and my morals as a Christian and an artist. Sometimes I'll go to photo shoots, and they'll pull out some stuff that I'm not comfortable wearing, and I just tell them 'no'. I'm very glad God made me a person who's not afraid to say what I think. I can just go, 'No, I'm not going to wear that!'

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.