Rajneesh Quotes

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

A picture is like a prayer.

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and...art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

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

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

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

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

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.

The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

I pray everywhere and with all my heart.

I don't think it's corny to pray at all.

I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can't disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion.