Theodore Kaczynski Quotes

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

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

Art is art. Politics is politics. It's very hard to get them together.

The best art is either political or revolutionary....Those things that are powerfully revolutionary are not always successful in the market place.

Art is not something to decorate a wall. Art is a political weapon.

All political art is bad – all good art is political.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

We're about music. We're not about politics.

I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world in a way it maybe isn't in American fiction. Your work of art becomes fashionable the moment it has some kind of political commentary. I think this has its dangers - the equation between fashion, politics, and art is problematic for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, the notion of politics as being de rigueur in the world of fiction is almost unthinkable. In fiction in America at the moment, the escape into whimsy is far more prevalent than the political.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.