Philip James Bailey Quotes

Nature is the art of God.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

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.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

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

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

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Life is God's art.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.

Sincere composers believe in God.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

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

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.