Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

Edgar Degas
About This Quote

According to the dictionary, art is a “type of creative work expressing beauty, harmony, and order in form or color.” However, when we look at the darker side of art, it’s not always considered to be beautiful. In many cases, art can be a vice. In this quote from poet Dylan Thomas, he is saying that art is a vice. A vice is defined as “a morally reprehensible action or habit.” The idea behind this quote is that art is something that should be enjoyed for its beauty and enjoyment alone without the addition of sin.

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