The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.
Jacques MaritainLet us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.
Jacques MaritainAmericans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.
Jacques MaritainGod does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth
Jacques MaritainEvery work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.
Jacques Maritain