Art Quote by Eddie Vedder

I am afraid of what is happening in the West. In a way, the link between art and politics is about to snap. Music…

— Moddi

Art is activism.

— Angie Thomas

I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I…

— Martine Syms

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't…

— Saul Williams

I think that the most effective social protest that any artist can do would be things that come naturally and feel obvious. I think…

— John Flansburgh

All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society…

— Wadada Leo Smith

What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no…

— Ian Svenonius

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

— Leo Tolstoy

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

— Chico Hamilton

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

— Vivek Shraya

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

— Ralph Ellison

Art is a protest against death.

— Audrey Flack