Quotes about Art

For all who have tried to know Jesus without Christ, many of the core church teachings offered a disembodied Christ without any truly human Jesus, which was the norm for centuries in doctrine and in art. Art is the giveaway of what people really believe at any one time.

Good art seems absolutely essential to healthy religion.

The Bible says, "We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works."1 Our English word poem comes from the Greek word translated "workmanship." You are God's handcrafted work of art. You are not an assembly-line product, mass produced without thought. You are a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind, original masterpiece.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don't want you to tell me that you find it 'creative.' I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.

Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.