Accepting Quote by Tom Robbins

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

— Peter Schjeldahl

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

Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings.

— Francoise Cachin

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

“All bad art is the result of good intentions.”

— Oscar Wilde

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

— Alain de Botton

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

— Josh O'Connor

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates,…

— C. S. Lewis

I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of the government…

— Steve Almond

We use art to combat the dark side of capitalism.

— John Fetterman

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

— Dana Loesch

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

— Oscar Wilde