Topic : Aesthetics
Artists
Many modern novels, poems, and pictures which we are brow-beaten into appreciating are not good work because they are not work at all. They are mere puddles of spilled sensibility or reflection. When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing taste, interests, and capacity of his audience. These, no less than the language, the marble, or the paint, are part of his raw material; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored nor defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius nor integrity; it is laziness and incompetence. - C. S. Lewis,
Bezalel, Tabernacle Artist
The Lord told Bezalel, the artist of the Tabernacle, to make the garments of the high priest, with their dazzling gems and elaborate design, “for glory and for beauty” (Exodus 28:2 KJV). God’s purpose for these particular works of Bezalel suggests a purpose for all of the arts--to glorify God and to manifest beauty. - Gene Edward Veith
