Art Quote by Stephen Charnock

Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false…

— Horace Walpole

For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but…

— Clement of Alexandria

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

— Anonymous

The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

— Jonathan Sacks

The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the…

— J. I. Packer

“For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no…

— Kai Meyer

“Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give people some…

— James Joyce

The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.

— Swami Vivekananda

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God…

— Swami Vivekananda

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

— D. H. Lawrence

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have…

— Andre Bazin

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

— Anonymous