Art Quote by Harland Miller Download Open image “I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.” — Harland Miller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Flats Thinking Truism
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine equation between literature and liberalism and human goodness, and pay some attention to the darker, ambiguous, and often muddled energies and motivations that shape a work of art. If we do this, we can appreciate a… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share
I think there's very little interesting in art that is not transgressive in some way. And I don't think that's a very revolutionary thing… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say,… — Tim Minear Copy Share Image
Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
“The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing our voice… — Scott M. Roberts Copy Share Image
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample… — Richard Wall Copy Share Image
All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another. — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there. — Harland Miller Copy Share Image
The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present. — Harland Miller Copy Share Image
The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind,… — Harland Miller Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image