Art Quote by Samuel West Download Open image “Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.” — Samuel West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Good art Left Left wing Right wing Wings
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be… — Isa Genzken Copy Share Image
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another. — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation. — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety. — Samuel West Copy Share Image
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia. — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test. — Samuel West Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
