Quotes About Art

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

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

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.