Accounts Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and…

— Gerhard Richter

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith…

— Edward Bond

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

— Emily Carr

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

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

— Fernando Botero

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

— Melissa Pritchard

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of…

— Stephen King

“In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by a work…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion…

— Douglas Portway

Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is…

— Truman Capote

Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense…

— N. T. Wright