Quotes About Belief

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?