Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.