 Maritain’s views on art had a significant influence on a number of artists, writers, and composers of his time, not only on his interlocutors. The American writer, Flannery O’Connor; regarded Art and Scholasticism as the book that she “cut [her] aesthetic teeth on” (O’Connor 1979: 216), and the Canadian writer Morley Callaghan commented that, in the early part of the twentieth century, “Christian artists were finding new dignity and spiritual adventure” in Maritain’s work (Callaghan 1963 [2006: 76]). While no longer central in contemporary debate in aesthetics, Maritain’s views continue to have a broad audience. 