Answers Quote by Yann Martel

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

— Chaim Potok

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

— Charles Baudelaire

The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil…

— Anonymous

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

— Simone de Beauvoir

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

— Albrecht Durer

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

— Aldous Huxley

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

— Charles Baudelaire

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

— Gregory Maguire

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every…

— Janet Fitch

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

— Anthony Kiedis

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

— Auguste Rodin