Art Quote by Hito Steyerl

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

— Morgan Parker

The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool.…

— Che Guevara

“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste” from the…

— Gregory Sholette

Art transcends politics this weekend.

— Barbra Streisand

In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too.

— Munira Mirza

The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality and will…

— Scott Kahn

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

— Michael Scott

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

— Dave Hickey

Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

— Martha Rosler

Consuming art should involve investment and risk.

— Romesh Ranganathan

Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic…

— Martin Filler

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics...

— Ian Mcewan