Art Quote by Cai Guo-Qiang

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

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

— Dave Hickey

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

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

— August Wilson

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

— Josh O'Connor

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

Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon…

— Wyndham Lewis

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics...

— Ian Mcewan

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

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

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

— Youssou N'Dour

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