Appearance Quote by Camille Paglia

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

— Mary Gordon

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists…

— Athol Fugard

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

— Denis Diderot

“The morality of artists is replaced by aesthetics.”

— Herman Hesse

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up…

— Bono

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was…

— Tariq Ramadan

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the…

— Anonymous

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand this as…

— Tariq Ramadan

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

— Jennifer Stone

More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art…

— Jerry Saltz