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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
Art
Mind
Changes
Moral
Morality
Rather
Implicit
Passionate
Blood
Than
Didactic
Essential
Which
Function
When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'
Bruce Coville
Speak
Giving
One-Man
Schools
Call
Am
Go
Didactic
Really
Show
Standup
Speech
I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation.
Cornelia Parker
Work
Political
Interpretation
Dimension
Hopefully
Propagandist
Open
Had
Am
Didactic
Often
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
Joan D. Vinge
Political
Write
Didactic
Want
When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social collective.
Kehinde Wiley
Art
Learning
School
Political
Collective
Type
About
Up
Art School
Very
Didactic
Going
African-American
Social
Much
Growing
Growing Up
Based
I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have my own emotion, to feel, 'Wow, there is something I can discover, I can create.'
Raoul Peck
Own
Way
Tell
Wow
Something
My Own
Emotion
Feel
Discover
Didactic
Just
Deciding
Story
Create
Need
I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form.
Shirin Neshat
Justice
Power
Important
Aggressive
Way
Find
Something
Could
Still
Overly
Heard
Trying
Didactic
Artist
Done
Being
Form
Interested
Social
Really
Certain
Social Justice
Such A Way
Right
A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.
Tim Crouch
Else
Shadow
Something
Something Else
Knows
Exercise
End
Child
Didactic
Sitting
Receiving
It was - I'm very didactic in my lyrics, but I've always been drawn to mock my own emotions, and so I write this very lyric-heavy stuff, which suits theater and comedy much more than it suits pop.
Tim Minchin
Emotions
Suits
Comedy
Own
Lyrics
Drawn
My Own
More
Write
Stuff
Always
Been
Very
Mock
Than
Didactic
Which
Theater
Much
Pop