To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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 in the book.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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