Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Another quote →

More quotes by Edith Wharton

All Edith Wharton quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Edith Wharton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.