Art Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

— Charles Baudelaire

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

— Charles Baudelaire

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

— Stephen King

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas…

— Yann Martel

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

— Chaim Potok

The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil…

— Anonymous

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

— James Tiptree Jr

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

— Anonymous

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

— Lord Acton

Goodness is nature. evil is learned.

— Ranex Ranex

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

— John Henry Newman