Art Quote by Claes Oldenburg

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

— Claes Oldenburg

“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare and Aeschylus…

— Toni Morrison

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

— Toni Morrison

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

— Yasmine Hamdan

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

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need…

— Maya Hawke

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

— Dave Hickey

Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply…

— Lewis Hyde

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy…

— Alan Moore

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

— Douglas Sirk

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

— Dana Loesch