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“Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.”

Artist Religious Land Poet Saint Lawyer Journalist Professors Businessman Sailor Statesmen Gangsters Parasites

Author:William C. Brown

“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.”

Men World Writing Children Has Beens Art Real Whole Joy Artist Universe Born Religious Love Is Subjects Painting Birth Art Is Whole World Impulse Non Religious

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.”

Ifs World Artist Lost Religious Leader Steps Roles Creative Insight Religious Leaders Creative Writers

Book:A Short History Of Myth

Source: A Short History Of Myth

“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

“The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts”

“Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble.”

Ifs Men Christian Artist Religious Trouble Civilization Mouths Gentleman Composition Another Man Lighting Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:Dennis Prager

“Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.”

Source: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society

“I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.”

Ifs Feels Art God Feelings Artist Religion Religious Fire Naked Awful Almighty Almighty God

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence