Thought for the Day

Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968) was a well-known British poet and art critic. Here is something he wrote in 1952 that bears some consideration:

"Art is not and never has been subordinate to
moral values. Moral values are social values;
aesthetic values are human values.... Morality
seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define
them by externalizing them, by giving them
significant form. Morality has only one aim--
the ideal good; art has quite another aim--
the objective truth... art never changes."