All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
Art is spiritual.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
Art is the path to being spiritual.
I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.
I always said God was against art and I still believe it.
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.
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.