Quotes About Politics

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

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

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

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

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

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 and pushes against stuff.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

there is no politically neutral art.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.