"Dear artists, you well know that there are many impulses which, either from within or from without, can inspire your talent. Every genuine inspiration, however, contains some tremor of that 'breath' with which the Creator Spirit suffused the work of creation from the very beginning. Overseeing the mysterious laws governing the universe, the divine breath of the Creator Spirit reaches out to human genius and stirs its creative power. He touches it with a kind of inner illumination which brings together the sense of the good and the beautiful, and he awakens energies of mind and heart which enable it to conceive an idea and give it form in a work of art. It is right then to speak, even if only analogically, of 'moments of grace', because the human being is able to experience in some way the Absolute who is utterly beyond...Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude."

Pope John Paul II - from Letter to Artists