Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Source: On Writing, Four Letters: Escapism (1949), written 1936.
-- Willa Cather, (Dec 7 1876-1947), US novelist, short-story writer; She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours, 1922; she also wrote O Pioneers, 1913.