Principles For The Arts From The Doctrine Of Creation

What do you think of this excerpt from "The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About The Arts," by Leland Ryken, c. 1989, Harold Shaw Publishers:

"At least five major principles follow from the biblical doctrine of creation. (1) The fact that God made earthly reality and set the human race over it means that the artist's and critic's preoccupation with human experience and culture is God-ordained. (2) Since God made a world that is beautiful as well as functional, we know that the concern of the creative artist and the critic with beauty, form, and artistic delight is legitimate. (3) God's separateness from creation means that culture cannot be equated with God; the artistic endeavor is God-approved but is not something that is inevitably Christian or even religious. (4) The fact that humans are created in God's image provides a sanction for human creativity and a theological explanation of why people create. (5) The doctrine of creation ex nihilo (from nothing) has given Christians a model for regarding artists as capable of creating, through their imagination, works for which there are no existing models that fully account for them, and it allows Christians to revel in originality -- in God's doing a new thing."