Top 1200 Political Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.

I've never made a political donation to Hillary Clinton or any other political candidate.

I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.

The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form, or material. My feeling is that most paintings, most films, most music, most literature and, indeed, most comics fail as "Art." A masterpiece in any genre, form or material is equally "good." It's ridiculous to impose a hierarchy of value on art. The division between high and low art is one that cannot be defended because it has no correlation to aesthetic response.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Donald Trump lives and operates in a political world, but he's not political. This is what people still don't get.

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.

The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with political ethics. Ethics is the one rational discipline that demands the establishment of a rational set of value judgments; political ethics is that subset applying to matters of State.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity.

I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful.

Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.

I have no political weight, and I haven't earned the right to launch some kind of political programme or stand as a candidate.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.