Art Quote by Douglas Sirk

“One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.”

— Bruce Sterling

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

— Jean Baudrillard

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of…

— Susan Sontag

The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here…

— Asger Jorn

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

— Rachel Kushner

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

— Rachel Kushner

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

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 don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

— Dario Fo

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression […] I don’t think anybody can separate art from…

— Ai Weiwei

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

— Edward Abbey