Art Quote by Edward Abbey

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

Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics…

— Eugene Ionesco

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

— August Wilson

I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world in a…

— Katie Kitamura

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

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

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

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

— Laurie Anderson

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to…

— Eudora Welty

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

— Rachel Kushner

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

— Rachel Kushner