Robert Hughes Quotes

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

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

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose.

Much prayer, but no piety.

Whenever I traveled abroad and went into these old cathedrals and churches, I would feel so peaceful.

In some very real way, rock 'n' roll is like a religion to me.

Being a Muslim is very important to me, more important than anything, although sometimes travel makes it difficult for me to always pray when I want to.

There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.

I respect religious rules. I am a true God-fearing Hindu.

I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea. Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.