Art Quote by John Irving

“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art…

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their art; it’s…

— Jessica Zafra

“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

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

— Bob Mould

“No writer should be the same as another, that’s not art.”

— Therese Anne Fowler

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist…

— Oscar Wilde

“Selling out had never been a problem before because no one had wanted to buy. Why are we kneecapping ourselves with artistic principles when…

— Matthew De Abaitua

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.”

— C.S. Lewis