“Those who aspire to a life of beauty, must, in the first place, strive to be truthful and good. If life is true it will automatically become beautiful, just as light shines forth when flame is enkindled. But if they seek after beauty in the first place… in the endContinue Reading
The Great Secret Are you ready? Here it is … Art must be beautiful. The vocation of the artist is the pursuit of beauty. Art must be beautiful because it is always and everywhere a protest against the ugliness and evil in the world. Art is truth clothed in beauty.Continue Reading
“If it comes to that, I wont be an artist.” “You’ll always be an artist, you have no choice.” This exchange from the 1965 movie “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” takes place between two great artists of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael and Michelangelo, as they discuss the sacrifices (the agony)Continue Reading
“Art demands an artist. Random chance has never explained a waltz or a symphony, a physical equation or an epic poem. It cannot.” Fr. Thomas Dubay “The Evidential power of Beauty”Continue Reading