Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Now, entertainment and moral spellbinding have their uses, but they are not art in the proper sense. They may be the incidental effects of good art, but they may also be the very aim and essence of false art. And if we continue to demand of the arts only these two things, we shall starve and silence the true artist and encourage instead the false artist, who may become a very sinister force indeed.