Art Quote by Anonymous

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

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

— Rachel Kushner

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

— Laurie Anderson

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

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

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

— Ai Weiwei

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— Walter Pater

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

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

— George Orwell

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

— August Wilson

Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more…

— Cai Guo-Qiang