Art Quote by Ezra Pound

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

— Auguste Rodin

“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

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

— Gustave Flaubert

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as…

— DH Lawrence

Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be…

— J. Vernon McGee

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

— Oscar Wilde

“We should realize that if something untrue or immoral is stated in great art, it can be far more devastating than if it is…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

— Anonymous

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Jennifer Stone

I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use...I prefer the word "unethical."

— Ivan Boesky

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe