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Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.