I don't see myself as a political artist, but certain issues mean a lot to me. — Kano Copy Share Image
Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art. — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics,… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I… — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending -… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet… — John Luther Adams Copy Share Image
When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics.… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
In Mexico, muralism is an important part of the artistic vocabulary, and it has a very different place than it does in… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life ... but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
“And there you have your Founders and Framers in all their elite glory—the 1 percent of their time. Many spent more than… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“The travails of being an employee include not only uncertainty about the duration of one's employment, but also the humiliation of many… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I am close friends with Marina Abamovich, so I love strong, very aggressive political art. She is like a mom who wants… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman. — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
“There is an art, a deeply political art, of taking circumstances as they arise and attributing them to your side or the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Pussy Riot have certainly changed some people's assumptions about the role of political art and the relationship between the intelligentsia and the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
![“One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I wanted to work with [Diego] Rivera, which I did, on a mural that he was painting at the time. But at some point I realized that I wasn't going to be a political artist, it just wasn't in my…” quote by Michelle Stuart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/029/michelle-stuart-27692_art_one-of-the-reasons-that-i-went-to-mexico_2791884.jpg)
