Act Quote by Huston Smith

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan…

— John Updike

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who…

— Cate Blanchett

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious…

— Robert Shaw

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort of art…

— Felix Mendelssohn

Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.

— Gunter Brus

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

— Julia Cameron

I come from a Punjab and a community that has taught me that art is meant to be challenging, infuriating and thought provoking.

— Kanika Dhillon

I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an…

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Alain de Botton