Art Quote by Franklin J. Meine

“Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Profanity is the use of strong words by weak people.”

— Anonymous

“Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from…

— Quentin Crisp

“art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both,and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise called…

— Norhtrop Frye

“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.”

— Betty Smith

“that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded”

— Terry Fallis

“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.”

— Frank Norris

“Artistic expression is about freedom, not about imprisoning yourself as an author within the boundaries of your mother tongue.”

— A.M. Bakalar

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

— Theodore Roosevelt