Religious Art Quotes:

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Religious, Art, Categories, Religious Art

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

- Jacques Maritain

source: Jacques Maritain, Jean Cocteau (2014). “Art and Faith: Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau”, p.47, Open Road Media

topic: Religious, Art, Catholic, Religious Art

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

- Galileo Galilei

source: "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

topic: Believe, Humor, Religion, Obliged, Anti Religious

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Motivational, Coexist, Religious Life

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

- Jonathan Swift

source: 'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

topic: Love, Hate, Religion, Love And Hate, Satirist

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.30, Publishdrive

topic: Art, Fear, Philosophical, Atheistic, Religion And Art

The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in Christian religious art.

- Manly Hall

source: Manly P. Hall (2003). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.123, Penguin

topic: Religious Art

It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.

- John Walford

topic: Religious, Art, Impact, Religious Art, Artistic Expression

Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.

- Fritjof Capra

source: "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

topic: Beautiful, Religious, Art, Bronze, Modern Physics

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Religious, Art, Greek, Religious Art

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Music, Religious, Art, Religious Art

It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion and my take on Andy as an artist now comes down to a simple sentence: he made religious art for a secular society which is why it has so much appeal.

- Bob Colacello

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Religious, Art, Simple, Religious Art, Secular Society

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

- Tim Crane

topic: Religious, Art, Atheist, Religious Art