Quotes About Power

Art is far feebler than necessity.

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

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

All art is political, all art is a martial one.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

there is no politically neutral art.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

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

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.