Art Quote by Corey Stoll

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

— Youssou N'Dour

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

— Laurie Anderson

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

— Dana Loesch

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

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political,…

— Eric Drooker

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

— Rachel Kushner

“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than…

— Robert Hughes

“Those seeking political and economic change should consider embracing art. Part of our role as citizens is to look more closely at the media…

— Jonathan Taplin

The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we are visiting…

— Engelbert Humperdinck

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

— Michiko Kakutani

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive…

— Thom Mayne

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy…

— Andy Goldsworthy