Quotes About Values

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

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

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

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

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

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

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

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

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.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

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

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.