Max Beckmann Quotes

I think it's very important of course that you're politically aware of what you do.

Honestly, I'm not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn't say I'm super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn't speak on things that I don't understand too much.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues ….

People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we're never going to stop needing those.

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

We are not apathetic in this country.

I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

I don't play politics; I don't do that. I think there's too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it's our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.