Art Quote by Hans Haacke

“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than…

— Robert Hughes

I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation.

— Daniela Vega

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know,…

— Sarah Jones

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

— Dave Hickey

Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different…

— Camille Henrot

“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of…

— Clive Bell

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

— Glenn Gould

Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is related to…

— Lee Klein

Art and politics have many things in common.

— Tania Bruguera

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

“I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level…

— Vladimir Nabokov