Matthew Fox Quotes

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

Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.

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.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

Art should be on the side of humanity.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.

The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.