Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of hope - it is homage to the value of human life, and it is vital to society. Art is a sacred expression of human creativity that shares the same ontological ground as all human work. Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.
The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.
Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.
Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.
One of the things I love about art, is that it can say number of things to people. I broad hope is that it would just open people's hearts and that they would experience love, and that that would experience God.
Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.
The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.
The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.
It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.
