Picaso said, "'I don't loathe art, because I couldn't live without devoting all my time to it. I love it as the only end of my life.'
"Thus works of art become surrogate gods, taking the place of God the Creator; aesthetic contemplation takes the place of religious adoration; and the artist becomes one who in agony of creation brings forth objects in absorbed contemplation of which we experience what is of ultimate significance in human life." - Nicholas Wolterstorff
He goes on to say that "Plato suggested that our spacio-temporal world came into being when some god, confronted on the one hand by space and on the other by the realm of eternal Forms, did his best to produce in space accurate instances of the Forms. He failed, and his failure was inevitable. For to be spatial and temporal is to be inherently imperfect, and so to be capable of nothing more than blurred mirroring of the Forms. Creation, on Plato's view, cannot be other than a noble failure."
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