Art Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was…

— Tariq Ramadan

The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast scale, challenging…

— Katie Kitamura

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

— Auguste Rodin

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Jennifer Stone

It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their artistic genius…

— Fred Kaplan

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately…

— J. M. Coetzee

“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced it had…

— Terry Eagleton

As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“These two sections [of Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise], plus some of the author's notes, are all we have -- this in itself is a…

— Irène Némirovsky

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

— Anonymous