Art Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

— John F. Kennedy

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

— Marilyn Manson

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Art should not have to be a certain way,

— Willem de Kooning

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It…

— Keith Haring

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

— Anonymous

I believe all of us should have the freedom to have our personal take on how art affects us.

— Parvathy

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

— Deborah Eisenberg

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

— Leonard Nimoy

When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

— Walter Darby Bannard