Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no…

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its…

— Max Planck

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

— Willa Cather

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious…

— Lewis Mumford

We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art.…

— Peter Greenaway

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

— Clive Bell

Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each…

— Max Planck

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do…

— P.D. Ouspensky

It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense…

— Ruth St. Denis

I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be…

— Michel Onfray

Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the…

— Donald Kuspit

I have a weird relationship with putting religion in my art. I'm so far removed from it now, but considering that's really all I…

— Ethel Cain

I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I…

— Brian Eno

“Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of…

— Jonathan Franzen

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power…

— Octavio Paz