George Orwell Quotes

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

Art is manipulation without intervention.

If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.

Art is a delivery system for worldviews.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we want in the first place? Is it just about saying and doing whatever you want, or is it about something more? We should let the artist be free, but we must also question how exactly he deals with freedom. Is it arts for elevation or arts for destruction? Is there dignity in the process?

A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.

I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what gets into stores or not. It was quite simple for me: they act like judge and jury of my art, and that is unacceptable. I wanted to give it right to the public.

There is no gap between art and politics.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.