--- title: "3 Mark Flood Quotes" description: "Mark Flood has 3 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-mark-flood-82909.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Mark Flood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-mark-flood-82909.jpg) # Mark Flood **3** quotes in **24** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Mark Flood > [I never wished to be a politician, and I despise them. I've also wrestled with it over the years, and I deeply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-flood/i-never-wished-to-be-a-politician-and-i-despise-them-i-ve-also/) [Mark Flood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-flood/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfe/mark-flood-82909_art_i-never-wished-to-be-a-politician-and-i_331354.jpg) > [Over the years, I developed an extreme hostility towards the non-profit art organization gulag. I formed the opinion that it's actually a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-flood/over-the-years-i-developed-an-extreme-hostility-towards-the-non/) [Mark Flood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-flood/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/016/mark-flood-82909_art_over-the-years-i-developed-an-extreme-ho_656320.jpg) > [It's amused me the writers who have assumed that I was referring to a hateful quality of society in the '80s. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-flood/it-s-amused-me-the-writers-who-have-assumed-that-i-was-referring-to-a/) [Mark Flood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-flood/) [Amusing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amusing/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/289/mark-flood-82909_amusing_it-s-amused-me-the-writers-who-have-assu_765630.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-flood/#itemlist", "name": "Mark Flood Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I never wished to be a politician, and I despise them. I've also wrestled with it over the years, and I deeply dislike propaganda. And all art that is about propaganda, no matter how wonderful it's cause may be, I think is morally wrong. That's a major theme of my work. 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