Art Quote by Carl Andre

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing…

— Robert Barry

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

— Yasmine Hamdan

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

— Youssou N'Dour

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been…

— Doris Salcedo

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

— Ai Weiwei

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

— Peter Schjeldahl

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

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

— John Luther Adams

“I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— August Wilson

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

— Yolanda King

I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation.

— Daniela Vega