Aesthetics Quote by Vik Muniz

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

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the…

— Ingmar Bergman

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

— Jill Soloway

My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to…

— Mary Karr

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is…

— Ai Weiwei

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just…

— FKA twigs

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state…

— Robert Irwin

As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists…

— Josephine Meckseper

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

— Amiri Baraka

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think…

— Damien Hirst

In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.

— Dan Graham

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

— Lucy R. Lippard