Argument Quote by Thom Yorke

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

— Peter Schjeldahl

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

— Josh O'Connor

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

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

— George Orwell

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

— Orson Welles

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

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

— Tatyana Tolstaya

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

— Rachel Kushner

Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

— Anonymous

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

— August Wilson