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 the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. – Arthur Conan Doyle

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox