ALTAR DESIGNS AND PAINTINGS
How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!
My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.
They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.
Psalm 84:1–7
MORE FROM THE EPIPHANIES OF BEAUTY
“Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.”
“The gifts you have received are for each one of you a responsibility and a mission.”
“Artists who are conscious of all this know too that they must labour without allowing themselves to be driven by the search for empty glory or the craving for cheap popularity, and still less by the calculation of some possible profit for themselves. ”
“I invite you to cherish beauty, and beauty will heal the many wounds that mark the hearts and souls of the men and women of our day.”
“The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. ”
“Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole. ”