Art Quote by Jacques Barzun

“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 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

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Odilon Redon

“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern the qualities…

— Oscar Wilde

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

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

— Camille Paglia

It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork…

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious…

— Robert Shaw

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

The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential…

— Wendy Wasserstein