I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.
Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.
'St. Teresa' is one of my favorites. It reminds me of the importance of grace.
Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.
The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.
I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.
My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.
I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic.
Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?
Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same.
It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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
Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.
Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization
