Art Quote by Rachel Kushner

As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists…

— Josephine Meckseper

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but…

— Toni Morrison

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

— Ezra Furman

As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always made a…

— Mahira Khan

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is…

— Thom Yorke

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of…

— George Orwell

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

— Ronee Blakley

Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as…

— Paul Auster

I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture in a…

— Mark Foster

I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you…

— Eve Ensler

All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society…

— Wadada Leo Smith

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

— August Wilson