artistic neutrality Quotes

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that's how reality always is - it's this duality of being both hopeless and also full of hope.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.

I'm not feminist, by the way. I am just an artist.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we are visiting a good show - that's the purpose of an entertainer.

I'm not a political filmmaker.

I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

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.

An artist should be as impartial as God.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Poetry cannot take sides except with life.

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always made a concerted effort to maintain this standard for myself.

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.

The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to say, without it providing any sort of aesthetic delectation. Moreover, I needed to reduce my own personal taste to absolute zero.

I've never allowed my specific personal practice or belief to be overtly integrated to the music. Because that's crossing the line into, 'We want you to think this.' And that's not what we're about.

We've never been a political band.