And as from the fatherhood of God all paternity is named in heaven and earth, so from His creative power all art is named. As a fact of history It is the most interesting and illuminating of all historical happenings. As a truth of religion It is of primary and fundamental importance. But it is as a work of art that It has saving power, power to persuade, power to heal, poser to rescue, power to redeem. God's work of creation was gratuitous.
Man also is able to make gratuitously.
Such things are works of art pure and simple. He was also a religious and social philosopher for whom life was more than art, because it was the highest art, the art of being human. The word art first all meant skill, and it still means that first of all. And it means human skill, the skilful doing which results in making, so that, in its full meaning, the word art meant, and still means, the power in the mind of man so to direct his acts that the result of his thought and actions is a thing made. The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.