The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.
Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.
Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
there is no politically neutral art.
I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.
Art functioning as propaganda is not art.
Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.
All great art and literature is propaganda.
The communists saw what we did in the arts as the only product of socialism that was known in the West, so they tolerated it.
As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.
