Appearance Quote by Paul Klee

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

— Dario Fo

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

— Richard Whately

“Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.”

— Md. Mujib Ullah

“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly…

— Judith Butler

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of…

— Alison Jackson

“Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a…

— David Mitchell

“We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.”

— David Foster Wallace

“When we see things from a different perspective, they either transform into fair features or slip under the cloak of the collective unconscious… overruled…

— Kayla Severson

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope…

— Joey Skaggs

“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise its crumbs…

— Stewart Stafford