Marilyn Manson Quotes

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

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.

People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

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

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.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

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.

Sincere composers believe in God.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

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.

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

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

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.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.