Art Quote by Leland Ryken

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

— Alain de Botton

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

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

— Alexander Schmemann

The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West…

— Charles Colson

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

As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith…

— John Shelby Spong

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power…

— Octavio Paz

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

— Lawrence Durrell

Christianity brought something new and revolutionary: freedom and unconditional dignity for each individual, regardless of his religion, culture or nationality. But the East and…

— Walter Kasper

Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it…

— Anonymous