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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Thomas Aquinas
Art, Work, Lying

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

Thomas Aquinas
Art, Reason, Art Is

Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art

Thomas Aquinas
Art, Lying, Shadow
Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Mary T. Clark (2000). “An Aquinas Reader”, p.441, Fordham Univ Press

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

Thomas Aquinas
Art, Powerful, Knowledge Of God
Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.147, Hackett Publishing

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