Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
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.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.
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