Art Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

— Norman Mailer

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of…

— George Inness

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

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

— Lawrence Durrell

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must…

— Philip Roth

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

— Philip Roth

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Odilon Redon

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up…

— Bono