Action Quote by Oscar Wilde

“We should realize that if something untrue or immoral is stated in great art, it can be far more devastating than if it is…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

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

— Gustave Flaubert

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

— Auguste Rodin

“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

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

“All art is immoral.... For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is…

— Yosay Briels

“The idea that people can be improved by being offended will finally have to meet the idea (espoused some of the time by some…

— Wendell Berry

“Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.”

— Elizabeth Catlett

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— Walter Pater

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character…

— Philipp Meyer

“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

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman