Art Quote by Anna Funder

“I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“a boundless contempt for everything outside their art, for society, and above all, for politics. (64)”

— Émile Zola

“When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.”

— Gerard de Marigny

“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search…

— Barbra Streisand

“the art of politics and the idea of cohering interests.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”

— Theodor Adorno

To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning…

— William Kentridge

“Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.”

— Orrin Woodward

“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”

— Larken Rose

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