Art Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster

Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the…

— Paul Auster

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Gerhard Richter

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically,…

— Devendra Banhart

We aren't made to be worshipped as humans. I think that is why we see so many great artists crumble, because as humans, we…

— Scooter Braun

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Anonymous

If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even…

— Marilyn Manson

If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide…

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

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

We are artists, because God is.

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Alain de Botton