Art Quote by Amiri Baraka

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

— August Wilson

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression […] I don’t think anybody can separate art from…

— Ai Weiwei

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of…

— George Orwell

Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics -…

— Bruce Cockburn

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political,…

— Eric Drooker

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

— Youssou N'Dour

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political…

— Barry Jenkins

Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply…

— Lewis Hyde

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

— Ai Weiwei

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the…

— Ingmar Bergman