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“Dante and Hopkins, Mozart and Palestrina, Michelangelo and El Greco, Bramante and Gaudi have brought more souls to God than all the preachers of Texas.”

Art Dante Mozart Michelangelo Religious Art Gaudi Gerard Manley Hopkins El Greco Palestrina

Book:The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

Source: The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“All too often people say to artists, 'To be an artist is fine if your art can be used for evangelism.' And art has often become a tool for evangelism. But let's be precise. As such there is nothing against this. But we must be aware that art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. Christianity is true; things and actions and human endeavor only get their meaning from their relationship to God; if Christ came to make us human, the humanity and the reality of art find their foundation in him. So art should not be used to preach even if it can help. Yet there is another way that art can be or is meaningful.”

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Book:Art Needs No Justification

Source: Art Needs No Justification

“Art is not simply an external ornament donned by the cult to conceal its excessively harsh and austere side; rather the cult has an aesthetic aspect in itself.”

Art Religion Sociology Religious Art

Author:Émile Durkheim

“Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.”

People Art Religious Music Chosen Religious Art

Book:The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes

Source: The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes

“The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in Christian religious art.”

Way Art Body Christian Used Religious Importance Symbolic Superhuman Halos Religious Art

Book:The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Source: The Secret Teachings of All Ages

“It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion and my take on Andy as an artist now comes down to a simple sentence: he made religious art for a secular society which is why it has so much appeal.”

Looks Long Art Made Able Artist Religious Simple Emotion Happened Sentences Appeals Secular Secular Society Religious Art

Author:Bob Colacello

“I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.”

Art Interest Religious Periods Western Atheist Catholicism Abandoned Militant Art And Music Religious Art

Author:Tim Crane

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”

People Thinking Art Religion Fear Animal Atheism Training Philosophical Train Rage Masterpiece Atheistic Religion And Art Religious Art

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

“Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.”

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Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.”

“God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth”

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Book:Art and Faith: Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau

Source: Art and Faith: Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau

“The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise”

Art Religious Mere Greek Merchandise Religious Art

Book:The Dance

Source: The Dance

“Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.”

“It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”