Art Quote by Rita Mae Brown

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

— Rita Mae Brown

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

— Bill Kovach

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

— Iris Murdoch

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

— David Mamet

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

— Aleksandar Hemon

The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in…

— Joel Meyerowitz

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 development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

— Patrick Swift

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

— Susan Sontag

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

— Jean Cocteau