Quotes About Art

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

Music is my religion.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

I'm obsessed with low end, its kind of my religion. In a way it has given me a chance to explore more than I have in any other project.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Tea...is a religion of the art of life.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.