Art Quote by Edmund Wilson

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

— Auguste Rodin

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that…

— Ken Danby

“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are…

— Oscar Wilde

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and…

— Katherine Anne Porter

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

— Oscar Wilde

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

— Hillary Clinton

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very…

— Esperanza Spalding

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No…

— Abraham Lincoln

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

— Michel de Montaigne

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“There's no question about it. The arts are an extremely high-risk situation. People are willing to take these extraordinary chances to become writers, musicians…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let…

— Aldous Huxley