Not longer loved or fostered by religion beauty is lifted from its face as a mask and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love but for pleasure it degrades the seeker.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church everyone present knows what is going to happen that night but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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.
Modern bodybuilding is ritual religion sport art and science awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature it surpasses it.
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
All humanity is passion without passion religion history novels art would be ineffectual.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.