Moral Art Quotes

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand this as a provocation, but I also believe that we can still have very profound creativity with a moral sense.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

I think you have some artists who try to be as conscious as they can be.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".