There is art and literature that would offend the Spirit of God. There is art and literature that is devoid of the Spirit. And then there is art and literature that is inspired by God and is full of the Light of Christ.
It is our purpose to create literature and art that is inspired by God and is full of the Light of Christ.
"If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report, or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."
This video is very inspiring: https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2009-02-06-create?lang=eng
Some quotes from Boyd K. Packer (from "The Arts and the Spirit of the Lord"):
"The work of the Lord has been moved by the members...who have been blessed with special gifts and who use them unselfishly. Because of what they do, we are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly."
Elder Orson F. Whitney said: "We shall yet have Miltons and Shakespeares of our own. God's ammunition is not exhausted. His brightest spirits are held in reserve for the latter times. In God's name and by his help we will build up a literature whose top shall touch heaven, though its foundations may now be low in earth." ("Home Literature," R.H. Cracoft & N.E. Lambert, eds., A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints [SLC: Bookcreaft, Inc., 1979], pg 132.)...
"...the greatest hymns and anthems have not been composed, nor have the greatest illustrations been set down, nor the poems written, nor the paintings finished. When they are produced, who will produce them? Will it be the most talented and the most highly trained among us? I rather think not. They will be produced by those who are the most inspired among us. Inspiration can come to those whose talents are barely adequate, and their contribution will be felt for generations; and the Church and the kingdom of God will move forward just a little more easily because they have been here."
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