Quotes from Hans Rookmaaker

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.