Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

All art worthy of the name is religious.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.

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

All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?

Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.

God makes trees, he doesn't write books.

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.