The soul must be awakened to the reach of its profoundest yearning: for the "Beauty, ever ancient, ever new," "holy delight," form beyond all the grace of created forms, most beautiful of beings, and Beauty of all beauties. Once glimpsed, the charm of God's Beauty can sweep the heart upward, to Himself, the swelling fountain of unfailing sweetness that alone can satiate the soul's deep thirst for beauty.
~ Robert J. O'Connell; Art and the Christian Intelligence in St. Augustine
