# “A finite picture of the infinite” by N.D. Wilson

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- Published: 2010-08-20T15:54:16-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“What is the world? What is it for? It is art. It is the best of all possible art,
a finite picture of the infinite. Assess it like prose, like poetry, like architecture,
sculpture, painting, dance, delta blues, opera, tragedy, comedy, romance, epic.

Assess it like you would a Fabergé egg, like a gunfight, like a musical, like a 
snowflake, like a death, a birth, a triumph, a love story, a tornado, a smile, a
heartbreak, a sweater, a hunger pain, a desire, a fulfillment, a desert, a dessert,
an ocean, a leap, a quest, a fall, a climb, a tree, a waterfall, a song, a race,
a frog, a play, a marriage, a consummation, a thirst quenched.

Assess it like that. And when you’re done, find an ant and have him assess the cathedrals
of Europe. This painting is by an infinite Artist. It is a reflection of Himself(
could there be a better subject?), worked out in colors, lives, and constellations,
in a universe that to us seems endless but is to Him a mere frame, a small space,
a confining challenge for His artistry.

The temporal narrative of reality is every Art– invented and collected and woven
into one cosmic, finite portrait of the infinite.”

–N.D. Wilson, _[Notes From the Tilt-A-Whirl](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L1ZXAM?ie=UTF8&tag=toletaupanre-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003L1ZXAM)_(
Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2009), 83.

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