Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

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

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.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

All literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature...

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

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.

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.

Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see those separations too much, between what is artistic and what is political. Maybe in painting... no, I don't even believe that.

Entertainment is not politically neutral.

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

All literature is political.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual.

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.

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

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

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.