Divine Art Quotes

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is a similarity between her operations and man's art even in the details and trifles. When the overhanging pine drops into the water, by the sun and water, and the wind rubbing it against the shore, its boughs are worn into fantastic shapes, and white and smooth, as if turned in a lathe. Man's art has wisely imitated those forms into which all matter is most inclined to run, as foliage and fruit.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.

God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

Let a man live with God, not afraid to talk with him. Let him study God's plans and methods, as one of Michelangelo's pupils might study his.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

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

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.