“By the words ‘Christian art’ I do not mean Church art…I mean Christian art in the sense of art which bears within it the
character of Christianity…It is the art of redeemed humanity…Everything belongs to it, the sacred as well as the
profane. It is at home wherever the ingenuity and the joy of man extend. Symphony or ballet, film or novel, landscape
or still-life, puppet-show libretto or opera, it can just as well appear in any of these as in the stained-glass windows and
statues of churches…If you want to make a Christian work, then be Christian, and simply try to make a beautiful work,
into which your heart will pass; do not try to ‘make Christian’. (Art and Scholasticism by Jacques Maritain)