"Beauty

like Truth,

brings joy to the human heart.

Beauty

is an invitation to wonder,

to savor life,

and to dream of the future.

The artist has a special relationship to beauty. 'Beauty' is the vocation bestowed on him by the Creator, in the gift of 'artistic talent'. The artist has an obligation not to waste this talent, but to develop it, in order to put it at the service of humanity... opening the human soul to the sense of the eternal."

Pope John Paul II, 1999

In his letter to Artists