Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. – David Herbert Lawrence

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe