Quotes About Religion

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

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

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

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.

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

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.