D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we want in the first place? Is it just about saying and doing whatever you want, or is it about something more? We should let the artist be free, but we must also question how exactly he deals with freedom. Is it arts for elevation or arts for destruction? Is there dignity in the process?

I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end of the day I want it to be remembered for its artistic value as well as its entertainment value.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater... The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.