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.
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All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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