Francois Pinault Quotes

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

God to me is love.

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

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.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

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

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

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.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

I have so much love for art.

I really believe what people have said before, that God is love. For me, it's music. For you, it might be writing, or for somebody else, it might be soccer or whatever.

I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

All we know how to do is write music and love God.

My music is religion, and my religion is music. They are one.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.