Also Quote by Jeff Koons

Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.

— Kehinde Wiley

Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even…

— Rachel Kushner

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

— Henry Adams

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

— Peter Coyote

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but…

— Toni Morrison

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

— John Updike

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is…

— Thom Yorke

“And don’t forget that it is the press, the pulpit, and the university that mould public opinion, set the thought-pace of the nation. As…

— Jack London

“The Christian Church has put a spiritual hierarchy on jobs. Ministers and missionaries are on top, then perhaps doctors and nurses come next, and…

— Steve Taylor

You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing…

— Henry Adams

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls…

— Thom Yorke

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

— Cesare Pavese