“The spectacle shop was old, long, and narrow, with a glass front and a small thin door that opened onto a somewhat… — K. M. Alexander Copy Share Image
“Whether it is Bach or Mozart that we hear in church, we have a sense in either case of what gloria Dei,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the… — Brad Stephan Gregory Copy Share Image
The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
“In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“Classical education was only half the old system of European education--below it and above it there was the religious education that was… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing. — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, there was one thing about… — Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its… — John Walford Copy Share Image
“There were so many people, places and things she disliked, the litany of her pet peeves was hard to keep up with.… — Jonathan Shaw Copy Share Image
“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
