Two perspectives on art and God:

Chapter 2 is getting towards done, so I'll have it up before too long. In the meantime, because I'm reading Rahner, here's some of his "Prayer for Creative Thinkers":
( We have need of such high courage )

And coming at it from a different direction, Bono:
( The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God )

Somebody told me about this article, and rather mangled Bono's message by phrasing it as "every song is addressing God somehow", which I don't think is what he's saying. But I like that mishearing: I'm very taken with this idea that every work of art is an expression of a relationship with God, even if the artist doesn't believe -- maybe ceremoniously ignoring Him, maybe lying, maybe being truthful, maybe delivering a message straight to him.

Anyway, if you listen to depressing Radiohead songs and think, "This is what Thom Yorke would say to God if he could," it has some kind of effect.

One more quote about art, although not really about God (except in the crypto Rahner-Bono way):
( Well I say to them! )

I'm not sure why I like that so much, but I do. I dig on his determination to produce beautyness, as he calls it.