Moralistic Art Quotes & Sayings

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt. — Henry IV

I still can't believe I'm the girl who got to play Fantine. — Anne Hathaway

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature. — Junot Diaz

His fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? He — Ernest Hemingway,

More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt. — Jerry Saltz

Rebuke them that violates the principles of kingdom of God — Sunday Adelaja

So long as we exalt artists as beautiful liars or as the world's most profound truth-tellers, we remain locked in a moralistic paradigm that doesn't even begin to engage art's most exciting provinces (139). — Maggie Nelson

In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world. — Alice B. Emerson

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life. — Sting

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation. — Larry David

Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so. — Ted Trueblood