Quote by Roald Dahl

“In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.”

— Edward St. Aubyn

“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

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

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

— Oscar Wilde

“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic, bloody farce.”

— Don Winslow

“art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both,and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise called…

— Norhtrop Frye

“Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass.”

— Charles Bukowski

Art has an obligation to offend

— Edward Albee

“No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a…

— Mark Twain

“Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Oscar Wilde