"May your art help to affirm that true beauty which, as a glimmer of the Spirit of God, will transfigure matter, opening the human soul to the sense of the eternal.”
-St. John Paul II
St. John Paul II wrote a Letter to Artists in 1999. In that letter, the Pontiff reaffirmed the great role that Catholic artists, painters, writers, architects, musicians, etc. have to play in the life of the Church. Catholic art, especially in its traditional forms, is art for the soul. Truth, beauty, and goodness come together as one; Christ is partly made perceptible to us through art.
https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/letters/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_23041999_artists.html