Top 1200 Religion And Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

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

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world.

A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that appeases him. He who fears and hates religion is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain, which prevents his flying on the passenger. He who has no religion at all is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears in pieces, and when he devours.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to be a religion designer. I'd like people come up to me and say, I need a religion. I'd go talk to them for a while, and I'd design a religion for them. That would be a great job. There's a need for people like that. Fortunately, seeing that one can't actually do it, I get paid for sort of making them up anyway.

My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.

There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.

Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

When we even use the term 'specialized world,' we already have a problem! We're making art; they are making art... these worlds are not far apart from each other. For instance, pieces of art that hang on a wall can be seen in museums or can be used in a variety of commercial ways. That art is everywhere, so the message is that it's a part of everyday life.

Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion, that we shall discover truth, morality and reason. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from these remedies which nature advocates, far from curing; it only aggravates, perpetuates and multiplies them.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.