Creative Politics Quotes

Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

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

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked.

It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly political, but I'd say by channelling their energy into community projects, that's a valid political statement.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

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.