VI. Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art

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Created “in the image of God,”²⁹³ man also expresses the
truth of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty of his artistic
works. Indeed, art is a distinctively human form of expression; beyond the
search for the necessities of life which is common to all living creatures, art
is a freely given superabundance of the human being’s inner riches. Arising
from talent given by the Creator and from man’s own effort, art is a form of
practical wisdom, uniting knowledge and skill,²⁹⁴ to give form to the truth
of reality in a language accessible to sight or hearing. To the extent that it
is inspired by truth and love of beings, art bears a certain likeness to God’s
activity in what he has created. Like any other human activity, art is not an
absolute end in itself, but is ordered to and ennobled by the ultimate end of
man.²⁹⁵

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team

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