Art and Architecture

“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine woven linen, and blue, purple, and scarlet thread; with artistic designs of cherubim you shall weave them (Exodus 26:1).

The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone to be seen (1 Kings 6:18).

The larger room he paneled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it. And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim. He also overlaid the house—the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors—with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls (2 Chronicles 3:5-7).

It has been said that Gothic architecture represents the soul aspiring to God, and the Renaissance or Romanesque architecture represents God tabernacling with men.
~ Robert Hugh Benson

Just as good literature and good art raise and ennoble character, so bad literature and bad art degrade it.
~ (Frederick) Donald Coggan

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is the art of God Eternal.
~ Dante Alighieri

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
~ André Gide

All great art is the expression of man’s delight in God’s work, not his own.
~ John Ruskin

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
~ Count Leo Tolstoy

Varieties of uniformities make complete beauty.
~ Christopher Wren

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture taken from the New King James Version®, NKJV © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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