Yasmine Hamdan Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I am an artist and a political being as well.

Art is activism.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

I think the good thing about Macklemore is that he is very precise about what he gets involved in. As you can tell, he's very passionate about what he puts his name on, because he talks about things people don't usually talk about, and his concepts are very, very passionate.

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

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

Art and politics must move closer together. Reflection and action must be equally valid in good men if history is not to take one course and art another.

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

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they live. But it used to be our job.

People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.

If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.

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

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.

Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?

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.

If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one 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.