Sarah Jones Quotes

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

When the arts become a political football, they lose.

The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

I don't like politics in music.

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.