Pope John Paul II on the artist's calling:

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of "artistic talent"....

Those who perceive in themselves this kind of divine spark which is the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, musician, and actor feel at the same time the obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbor and of humanity as a whole.

Letter to Artists, 3.