Let him then make what he wishes. If the work conveys a note less purely Christian, it is because something was lacking in the purity of the love. It would therefore be futile to try to find a technique, a style, a system of rules or a way of working which would be those of Christian art. The art which germinates and grows in Christian man can admit of an infinity of them. And yet in it the Church is not seeking for beauty, nor for decorative motifs, nor to touch the heart.
Beautiful things are rare.
Classical art produced many Christian works, and admirable ones at that. It is a form born in another land, and then transplanted. Even now this art seems to herald itself in the individual effort of certain artists and poets over the past fifty years, some of whom are to be reckoned among the greatest. We must above all be careful not to disengage and isolate it prematurely, and by an academic effort, from the great movement of contemporary art. Christianity does not make art easy.