The demand for freedom in art is often raised today and requires a brief remark.
As we can learn from what has been said above, the artist enjoys a definite freedom according to the proper laws governing the respective fields. Embedded in the natural order and the "fundamental law of the final end,"(30) the artist can unfold his own individuality to the extent to which he is making use of the specific methods proper to diverse branches of art, thus communicating his way of thinking and feeling by means of a multiplicity of expressive possibilities and forms.
"Division in method or form cannot amount to the artist's exercise of his activity free from moral obligations, for the sole subject of each kind of activity is always the same human being, whose free and conscious activity cannot evade the moral attitude, as human life is always a whole."(31)

For this reason the demand for an unbound freedom is not justified in the arts any more than anywhere else; rather, in submitting to divine law-man's works presuppose the work of God's creation; they are therefore not his own property-the artist does not in any way suffer any restriction or even abolition of his freedom; indeed, it is precisely in this way that man's talents find their proper unfolding directed to what is essential, while a subjective arbitrariness in human actions is avoided.
Like any other human activity, artistic endeavors, too, have to be seen within the context of the order given by the Creator of all being and with reference to the dignity of human beings. Freedom in the arts is thus not unlimited.
The artist is rather called to have his own ego absorbed in objective greatness, to attempt to behold the eternal with a pure heart and to mirror it in all its plenitude and clearness: "Artists are, as it were, interpreters of God, especially with respect to his beauty and harmony. Whatever artistic beauty one may wish to grasp in the world, in nature and in man, in order to express it in sound, in color, or in the play of matter, such beauty cannot prescind from God. Whatever exists is bound to him by an essential relationship."(32)