Art Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“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

“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

— Keith Haring

“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.”

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”

— G.K. Chesterton

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

— Gustave Flaubert

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— Walter Pater

“There's truly an art regarding literature in every way...”

— VandBrooks