The artist's eye (from 2013)

Frederic Turner wrote, “ ...the artist must sail into the unknown, cutting blazes as he or she goes along, blazes that consist of a combination of some symbols already known and some open to question, a grotesque paradox, that opens up the new territory of perception...”

Turner also quotes Shakespeare from “A Midsummer Night's Dream”:

“The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,

  Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

  And as imagination bodies forth

  The Forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

  Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

  A local habitation and a name.”

By seeking beauty art affirms Godhood. Evolving increasingly beautiful, intelligent and noble beings moves us closer to Godhood, which is the evolved zenith of these things. We materially evolve to Godhood in the material/supermaterial world, which is the most scared subject of art in theological materialism.