Art Quote by Joanna Russ

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

— Will Youmans

In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a…

— F. R. Leavis

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

— Dave Hickey

If more stories are told about marginalized communities, subcultures, and minorities, the less marginalized they will be.

— Sean Baker

Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience…

— David Foster Wallace

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

— Junot Diaz

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a…

— Northrop Frye

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely…

— Valerie Miner

“The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice and exclusiveness…

— Joanna Russ

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

— Peter Guber

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

— Morgan Parker

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

— Dana Loesch