Talk:Many Beautiful Things

Lillias Trotter’s art motivation.

November 18, 2025

I am a cartoonist who was fully blessed by your film. I almost believe Lillias and I share the same heart. Mrs. Hinson has blessed so many of us by researching the life of Lillias! Bless her! Sorry today, I have one small critique. At one point, the narrator said that Lillias did the art for herself. That couldn’t be further from the truth. As John Housman said it so well in “Fame,” “To do art just for yourself is just a form of masturbation.” Lillias’ art was never for herself. It was to God. She was like the woman who broke the jar of nard and anointed Christ’s feet. Her art was an Olah sacrifice to God. It was completely to Him! It was herself giving all she had to God. The art was enjoyable to her not because she worshipped her own crafts of her hand as in idolatry, rather it was that pleasure of creating as her Father creates. Any child that studies a skill under his or her father knows how special it is when the father can trust the skills of the child and give him or her the responsibility to become part of the family business. Lillias was in her Heavenly Father’s business. We who get to see it now are intruding on that private correspondence…that private worship. Thank you again for publishing the book and movie.

Humbly in His service, Dik LaPine cartoonist of the King. ~2025-34617-71 (talk) 16:35, 18 November 2025 (UTC)