“Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.”
“Passion was the antithesis of morality.”
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
“True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict.”