Art Quote by Barry Jenkins

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

— August Wilson

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

— George Orwell

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

— Youssou N'Dour

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

— Rachel Kushner

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

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

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

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as…

— Paul Auster

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

— Orson Welles

Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics…

— Eugene Ionesco