"As then painters transfer human forms to their pictures by the means of certain colors, laying on their copy the proper and corresponding tints, so that the beauty of the original may be accurately transferred to the likeness, so I would have you understand that our Maker also, painting the portrait to resemble His own beauty, by the addition of virtues, as it were with colors, shows in us His own sovereignty."

-Gregory of Nyssa, On the Meaning of Man, V.1


What a beautiful depiction of God's loving creation of humanity. We are God's self-portrait, painted with virtues to resemble his beauty.