" Faith is certainty of a 'great Presence' that allows the building of my relationship with reality, of my work, and of my involvement in society, that allows my work to become something useful and beautiful before my eyes. Beautiful because if it doesn't become a work of art, man's accomplishments are not human. The touch of art introduces an ideal reverberation into the mechanical manipulation of the real: 'art that is the grandchild of God'  Dante said, since true beauty is derived only from the One who saves beauty, the one who doesn't fear time, death and pain."

Luigi Giussani: Is It Possible to Live This Way? Vol.2, p.98

      "A theologian who does not love art, poetry, beauty music, and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology."

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger: The Ratzinger Report, p.130 

      

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man." 

Dostoevsky