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I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

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.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.