Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

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.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

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

There is no gap between art and politics.

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.

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

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.

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

It is difficult to make political art work.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

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

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

It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a mould of status quo. Is 'Downton Abbey' not political? That's political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? 'Downton Abbey' is about class. It's also about race.

I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation.

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

I like to make broader strokes with politics in my work.

Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it's not connected to actual movements, it doesn't ask the right questions.

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

I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.

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.