Quotes About Morality

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.

The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".