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How Does Art Imitate Nature? | Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

The Thomistic Institute

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Is God a Maker?

Thomas Aquinas defines making as the actor arts your factibilium, the right reason of what can be made. Art is not mere thought; it presupposes an idea that we pursue and freedom in choosing to do so. All our thinking is just consequent upon getting a true act of making for us and for God. The artistic concept needs to be expressed in physical mediums such as music or painting.

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