Francis Schaeffer Quotes about Art

No work of art is more important than the Christian's life, and every Christian is called to be an artist in this sense... The Christian's life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost

No work of art is more important than the Christian's life, and every Christian is called to be an artist in this sense... The Christian's life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Art, Important

Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

Francis Schaeffer

Art, Creativity, Godly

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

Francis Schaeffer

Art, Culture, Loses

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 of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Art, Mind

Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Art, Mean

In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Art, World

Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the Bible as truth”

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. Despite our constant talk about the Lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Art, Taken

"Art & the Bible: Two Essays".

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 out to make a work of art.

Francis Schaeffer

Art, Should, Settings

Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

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 totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Art, Self

Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

Francis Schaeffer

Art, Thinking, Ifs

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 on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Art, School