It remains for inspired hearts and talented fingers yet to reveal themselves. Our writers, our moving picture specialists, with the inspiration of heaven, should tomorrow be able to produce a masterpiece which would live forever. In the end, the artist's passions to create may likely overpower our sense of destiny and blur the line between God's purposes and our own. Ironically, the words which best describe the character of discipline and faith find in their antithesis, the words most often used to describe the creative personality. There is another issue.
Mortality is ultimately about selflessness.
In it's finest form, art is a jealous mistress. It is an obsessive, selfish passion. The egocentric obsession demanded by truly inspired art may be inconsistent with the selflessness that lies at the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Neal Maxwell alluded to this conflict. Perhaps, some say, there is reason to expect us to over-produce so that we account for at least a few blips on the cultural radar screen.