Quotes About Art

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world.

In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.