Acting Quote by Charles de Gaulle

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

— Youssou N'Dour

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

— Rachel Kushner

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with…

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— August Wilson

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political…

— Barry Jenkins

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

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

— Ai Weiwei

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

— Anonymous

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

— Tatyana Tolstaya

The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say,…

— Tim Minear

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

— Hannah Arendt

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— Walter Pater