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

- Hans Rookmaaker

We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.

- Hans Rookmaaker

Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.

- Hans Rookmaaker

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 ou…

- Hans Rookmaaker

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

- Hans Rookmaaker

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

- Hans Rookmaaker

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 l…

- Hans Rookmaaker

How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

- Hans Rookmaaker

We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality, rath…

- Hans Rookmaaker