Artistic Quote by Toni Morrison

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

— August Wilson

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

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

— Edward Abbey

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political…

— Barry Jenkins

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

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

— Rachel Kushner

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression […] I don’t think anybody can separate art from…

— Ai Weiwei

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

— John Luther Adams