Active Quote by Max Planck

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

— Ruth Benedict

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing…

— Sigmund Freud

“religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.”

— Peter L. Berger

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

— Alex Grey

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed…

— Bruno Walter

“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs,…

— Emil Cioran

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

— 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

“religions merit our attention for their sheer conceptual ambition; for changing the world in a way that few secular institutions ever have. They have…

— Alain de Botton

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

— John Calvin

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

— Michael Leunig