Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of 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.
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 way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.