Quotes on such matters:
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ~George Jean Nathan, House of Satan
Art is the struggle to understand. ~Audrey Foris
Art is spirituality in drag. ~Jennifer Yane
God is just another artist, like me. –Salvador Dali
Sources:
http://quote.robertgenn.com/
http://www.quotegarden.com/art.html