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Art Quotes by Francis Schaeffer
- Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
- As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important.…
- He who loses the arts loses the culture.
- A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise…
- How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting…
- Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
- In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.
- We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook…
- I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
- 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…
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