Karl Barth

"By means of art we learn not to take present reality with final seriousness.  We must not try to view our world as a solemnly serious cooperation with God.  Instead we forever play in the peace of our Father's house that is waiting for us...because the perfect has still to come.  beyond that all we do here and now...we cannot be more grimly in earnest about life than when we resign ourselves to the fact that we can only play."