Art Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a closeted person…

— Jonathan Santlofer

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome…

— Robert Greene

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

— Thom Yorke

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

— Rachel Kushner

It is difficult to make political art work.

— Thom Yorke

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

— Youssou N'Dour

I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world in a…

— Katie Kitamura

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

— Orson Welles

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

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

— George Orwell