Art Quote by Iris Murdoch

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to…

— Herbert Read

Art and love are the same thing: Its the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you

— Chuck Klosterman

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

— Chuck Klosterman

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Love is an act of art ... It is this creative quality of love, that it seeks to reshape the world for its sake…

— Rod Dubey

Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate…

— Georges Seurat

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste,…

— Alton Tobey

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has…

— Theophile Gautier

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

— Ayn Rand