“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”— E.A. Bucchianeri Related Quotes “Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.”– Henri Frederic Amiel “I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future– of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its leader, that tribe will become two. It may faulter my course, but it will not stifle my ending. I rule only among my believers.”— Kristie LeVangie “Oh, glorious Art!” thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. “Thou art the image of the Creator’s own. The innumerable forms that wander in nothingness start into being at thy beck. The dead live again. Thou recallest them to their old scenes, and givest their gray shadows the lustre of a better life, at once earthly and immortal. Thou snatchest back the fleeing moments of History. With thee, there is no Past; for at thy touch, all that is great becomes forever present; and illustrious men live through long ages in the visible performance of the very deeds which made them what they are.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne