Lee Krasner Quotes

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

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.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.

Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

I actually believe that this Trump phenomenon, which has affected many of us, is going to accelerate the use of art for philanthropy, because people are realizing that art is a vehicle for showing opposition - just look at the signs in the women's marches.

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

I initially thought it was going to feel weird to be [on Sundance] while [the marches against now-President Donald Trump] was happening. And feel disconnected in that way that feels irresponsible. But the other side of it is that there are people here who believe the right things that are trying to make a difference with art.

I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want to be part of it. I want to be a witness. I want to walk arm in arm with it. I want to hear it more and more, to cradle it, to carry it like a medal on my chest. Activism is a constant element in my life, even though afterwards I anguish over not having written 'my own things.' Testimonial literature provides evidence of events that people would like to hide, denounces and therefore is political and part of a country in which everything remains to be done and documented.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

I have decided to create a new political movement.

Worldwide, our young generation shares the same issues socially and politically.

Music has always been my first love, and I appreciate how a great musician can bring awareness to tough issues through their work.

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

How I can be an active voice for gay people but also the music industry? This is the art we need right now. This is what we need right now. We're in a renaissance, and we need people to rebel, come forth, and bring messages into art.

In the 1980s, Josef Beuys planted the seed that activism could be considered as art. I am influenced by the idea of his idea of social sculpture.

It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly political, but I'd say by channelling their energy into community projects, that's a valid political statement.