Art Quote by Masha Gessen

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

— Morgan Parker

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

— Dario Fo

Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to change minds…

— Barack Obama

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be…

— Louise Erdrich

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

— Jared Leto

I was working in the gap where Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted communism and Warhol appropriated the protest image and named it riot, which…

— Kelley Walker

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

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic

— Anonymous

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

— Dana Loesch

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

— Diogenes

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

— John Berger