Art Quote by Shirin Neshat

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

— Shirin Neshat

I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace,…

— Hafez Nazeri

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

— August Wilson

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics -…

— Bruce Cockburn

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

I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.

— Glenn Ligon

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

— Ai Weiwei

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political,…

— Amiri Baraka

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

— Youssou N'Dour

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

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

— Tatyana Tolstaya