Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort…

People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but…

— Jim Woodring

Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and artistic identification.…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated…

— Arthur Koestler

“as if any one but a fool imagined that he could compress a thing like art or religion or science into an epigram which…

— R. G. Collingwood

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

— Richard Blanco

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion…

— Guillermo del Toro

There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about…

— Freeman Patterson

Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then…

— Dan Graham

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

— Vincent Price

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

— Alex Grey

We learned how to look at art from religion.

— Grayson Perry

If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human…

— Lucas Samaras

The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion…

— Francois Pinault

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

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

— Julian Schnabel