Art Quote by Ayad Akhtar

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

— Yolanda King

Propaganda rarely makes good art.

— Susan Sutherland Isaacs

Over the years, I developed an extreme hostility towards the non-profit art organization gulag. I formed the opinion that it's actually a very sophisticated…

— Mark Flood

All art is propaganda.

— George Orwell

If someone wants to think what I do is somewhat artistic, that's fine, but I'm not looking to be necessarily labeled an artist by…

— Ken Wahl

I think it's what any artist would want: to feel like their work can be taken in on a level of experience beyond the…

— David Salle

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

— Ezra Furman

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

— Tori Amos

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just…

— FKA twigs

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a…

— Jasper Johns

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

— Deborah Eisenberg