“In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry, but the kind of art that creates a whole world in itself and in that world we see ourselves reflected and see our religious life perfected.” WorldKindArtWholeReligiousPaintingAbsenceWhole WorldRedemptionOrganizedVehicleOrganized ReligionReligious Life Author:Roger Scruton
“Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.” IdeasReligiousPaintingPerpetualReligious ExperienceRight IdeasPerpetual Motion Book:Ben Nicholson Source: Ben Nicholson
“In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.” ThinkingWorldArtDoneReligiousLossDealsModernPaintingReturnEternalLosingDamageCustomsOur WorldSecularModern Art Author:Antoni Tapies
“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.” MenWorldWritingChildrenHas BeensArtRealWholeJoyArtistUniverseBornReligiousLove IsSubjectsPaintingBirthArt IsWhole WorldImpulseNon Religious Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.” PeopleMenHumansStillsSoulCultureBeliefReligiousModernPaintingEvidenceAwakeningLandscapeCavesSculptureParallelsHuman SoulSymbolicReligious BeliefDepictionNeanderthals Author:Werner Herzog