Drawing Quote by Gunter Grass

I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you…

— Eve Ensler

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have…

— Billy Bragg

Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is…

— Larry Kramer

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

— Michael Pollan

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal…

— Tom Robbins

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society,…

— Thomas Mallon

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

— Randall Robinson

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn…

— Robert Adams

I can't define myself as a political writer - I don't think I've earned it, and I don't function as a political writer in…

— Katie Kitamura

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

— Oscar Isaac

Many novelists say, "I'm not a political novelist" - myself included. That's a standard, even a default position. Whereas that divide between art and…

— Katie Kitamura

Drawing the kind of comics that I do takes so long that to specifically address something as transitory as a political matter in it…

— Chris Ware