It is in living and acting that man establishes his relationship with
being, with the truth and with the good. The artist has a special
relationship to beauty. In a very true sense it can be said that
beauty is the vocation bestowed on him by the Creator in the gift of
artistic talent. And, certainly, this too is a talent which ought to
be made to bear fruit, in keeping with the sense of the Gospel parable
of the talents (cf. Mt 25:14-30).
Here we touch on an essential point. Those who perceive in themselves
this kind of divine spark which is the artistic vocation as
poet,writer, sculptor, architect, musician, actor and so on feel at
the same time the obligation not to waste this talent but to develop
it, in order to put it at the service of their neighbour and of
humanity as a whole.
John Paul II
Letter to Artists, (April 4, 1999)
The artistic vocation in the service of beauty
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