Art Quote by Eugene Ionesco

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

— Youssou N'Dour

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics...

— Ian Mcewan

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

— August Wilson

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

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 should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

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

— Edward Abbey

Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as…

— Paul Auster

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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

— Laurie Anderson