Art Quote by Harold Rosenberg

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today…

— Harold Rosenberg

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political…

— Leonard Cohen

Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

— Kate Braverman

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of…

— Sydney Pollack

“Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up…

— Simon Reynolds

In the broader American culture - the mainstream media, the world of the arts and entertainment, the high-tech world, and the entire enterprise of…

— Shelby Steele

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

— Peter Guber

I don't know everybody's political opinions, but I think the majority of people in the arts are pretty leftist, and we're disappointed in the…

— Paul Sparks

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

— Ben Shahn

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

— Eugenio Montale

“The rise of Milo’s 4chan-influenced right is no more evidence of a resurgence of conservatism than the rise of Tumblr-style identity politics constitutes a…

— Angela Nagle

“When a liberal professor takes enormous intellectual liberties by openly promoting an ideological agenda to his students, the cry of academic freedom rings across…

— Gary L. Bauer