Sounding the depths

...art, whether Christian or not, can't properly begin with a message and then seek a vehicle. Its roots lie...in the single story or metaphor or configuration of sound or shape which require attention and development from the artist. In the process of that development, we find meaning we had not suspected; but if we try to begin with the meanings, they will shrink to the scale of what we already understand: whereas the creative activity opens up what we did not understand and perhaps will not fully understand even when the work of creation is done. (Rowan Williams, Sounding the Depths)