Art Quote by Amiri Baraka

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have…

— Billy Bragg

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

— Youssou N'Dour

I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.

— Glenn Ligon

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

It is difficult to make political art work.

— Thom Yorke

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome…

— Robert Greene

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Thom Yorke

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

— Peter Schjeldahl

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

— August Wilson

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

— Yasmine Hamdan