John Wesley Quotes

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

I testify to you that God's pay is the best pay that this world or any other world knows anything about.

The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington [the White House.]

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

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.

Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.