Aesthetic Quote by Herbert Read

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception…

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Jennifer Stone

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

— Odilon Redon

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity,…

— Norman McLaren

Moral value includes of what is right or just in behaviour; arising from conscience or the sense of right and wrong.Social value is concerned…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

— Auguste Rodin

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

— D. H. Lawrence

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

— George Jean Nathan

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

— Gustave Flaubert

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand this as…

— Tariq Ramadan

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

— Ayn Rand

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