Hans Rookmaaker Quotes

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.

How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?