Art Quote by Idris Khan

My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to…

— Mary Karr

As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists…

— Josephine Meckseper

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing…

— Robert Barry

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

— Jill Soloway

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to…

— Max Beckmann

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

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

— Yolanda King

People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work.…

— Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political,…

— Eric Drooker

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

— Joe Bradley

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

— Euan Uglow

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

— Franz Kline