Able Quote by Kathryn Bigelow

I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of the government…

— Steve Almond

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

— Alain Badiou

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since…

— Al Alvarez

The way to take the arts seriously is not to defend this or that art form for its own sake. Pursuing arts activities with…

— Michael Rosen

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in…

— Stanley Elkin

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

— Joyce Carol Oates

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound.…

— Plato

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have…

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits…

— Dee Rees

Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is…

— Mike Huckabee

I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art…

— W. E. B. Du Bois