If only Thomas Kincade had read this

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"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 it Christian."

Jacques Maritain - Art and Scholasticism

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Christian art is defined by the one in whom it exists and by the spirit from which it issues: one says "Christian art" or the "art of a Christian," as one says the "art of the bee" or the "art of man." It is the art of redeemed humanity. It is planted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amidst the breezes of the seven gifts of the Spirit. It is natural that it should bear Christian fruit.

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