D. H. Lawrence Quotes

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

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

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we are opening to God: good, orderly direction. As we pursue our creative fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony. As we strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the Creator within. Artists love other artists. Our relationship to God is co-creative, artist to artist. It is God's will for us to live in creative abundance.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.

Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.