Art Quote by Ezra Pound

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

— Ezra Pound

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your…

— Michael Muhammad Knight

“Many previous religions gained enormous popularity and power despite their factual inaccuracies.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

— Ernest Renan

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

— Alain de Botton

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

— Lawrence Durrell

All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I think that's…

— Chitra Ganesh

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

— John Sterling

Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending…

— Gerhard Richter

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music,…

— Karen Armstrong