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“The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.”

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Author:Francois Pinault

“Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.”

Art Age Certain Individual Religious Genius Art Is Tradition Supreme Statements Traditional Abandoned Heroic Religious Truth

Book:Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.”

Mind Art Made Religious Art Is Noble Contemplation

Author:Michelangelo

“Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.”

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Author:Umberto Boccioni

“When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.”

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Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.”

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Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.”

Men Art Artist Religious Highest Art Is Raphael Scoffing Michael Angelo

Book:On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh

Source: On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh