Art Quote by Scott M. Roberts

It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a…

— George Orwell

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

— Deborah Eisenberg

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

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates…

— Thomas Kinkade

The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say,…

— Tim Minear

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

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

— Dana Loesch

“I avoid contemporary TV...politics...art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.”

— Dean Koontz

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly…

— Aleksandar Hemon

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

— Edward Abbey