In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science.
For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.