Activism Quote by Eve Ensler

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

— Oscar Isaac

I'm an artist, I'm not an activist.

— Shirin Neshat

Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you…

— Salma Hayek

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

— Ezra Furman

As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists…

— Josephine Meckseper

Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that.

— Kiersey Clemons

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your…

— Bill Ayers

Art is activism.

— Angie Thomas

For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and…

— Gunter Grass

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

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need…

— Maya Hawke

Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even…

— Rachel Kushner