Political Art Quotes: top 46 famous quotes about Political Art

Political Art Quotes & Sayings

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Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces. — Raheel Farooq

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics. — August Wilson

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art. — Dave Hickey

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. — Aldous Huxley

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time. — Toni Morrison

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political. — Jill Soloway

any form of expression that ceases to be an experience and becomes an art form loses its glowing divinity — Jo M. Sekimonyo

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. — Brad Holland

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best — Otto Von Bismarck

All art is political, all art is a martial one. — William C. Brown

It is difficult to make political art work. — Thom Yorke

Art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose — Walter Pater

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems. — Art Hoppe

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political
especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate. — Hans Haacke

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. — Alfred De Vigny

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. — Tina Brown

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. — Barbara Kingsolver

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. — Sol LeWitt

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes. — Steve Earle

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words. — Gustave Le Bon

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective. — Louise Erdrich

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. — Douglas Sirk

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art. — Michelle Stuart

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political. — Scilla Elworthy

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. — Peter Schjeldahl

I'm an art major. You're a political science major. YOU go lay down the law. — C.K. Walker

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum. — Claes Oldenburg

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it. — Robert Barry

No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. — George Orwell

History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time. — Armand Hammer

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing. — Laozi

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic. — Mao Zedong

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. — Henri Queuille

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political. — Rachel Kushner

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. — Ambrose Bierce

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it. — Dave Hickey

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. — Youssou N'Dour

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. — Thom Yorke

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them. — Joe Haldeman