Art Quote by Leo Tolstoy

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

— Hannah Arendt

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

— Yasmine Hamdan

It is difficult to make political art work.

— Thom Yorke

Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see…

— Toni Morrison

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

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

— Dana Loesch

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

— Dario Fo

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

— Rachel Kushner

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

— Rachel Kushner

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

— George Orwell

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

— Youssou N'Dour