“As we learn from the Islamic Litanies of the nighty-nine Divine Names, God is not only the King, the Just, the Wise, the Omniscient, the Almighty, the Victorious, the Irresistible. He is also the Beautiful, the Creator, the Former, the Marvelously Original, and the All-Holy. And here lies the metaphysical inevitability of sacred art as a result of the revelation. Here also lie the roots of artistic genius and it is only from these roots that a tradition of sacred art can spring.”

Martin Lings