Harry Callahan Quotes

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Music is a form of prayer.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Singing is a prayer to me.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up. Saying the word 'God,' 'Jesus' - it happens in a million rock songs.