Politics In Art Quotes

The political nature of 'Threepenny Opera' is immediately visible. I just think that that's not always a part of acceptable and fun entertainment that we're exposed to - that political side.

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.

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.

It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a mould of status quo. Is 'Downton Abbey' not political? That's political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? 'Downton Abbey' is about class. It's also about race.

It's horrible when actors say that they are apolitical.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.

I like to make broader strokes with politics in my work.

There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of a detour into superficiality, and although I disagree with those people, I don't think it's the case that everyone who writes has to write politically or has to write in opposition to the really horrendous things that are going on on a political level in the world today. There are some writers who simply aren't any good at that and really should stay away from it.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

We welcome Donald Trump at 'Hamilton,' absolutely.

I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world in a way it maybe isn't in American fiction. Your work of art becomes fashionable the moment it has some kind of political commentary. I think this has its dangers - the equation between fashion, politics, and art is problematic for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, the notion of politics as being de rigueur in the world of fiction is almost unthinkable. In fiction in America at the moment, the escape into whimsy is far more prevalent than the political.

I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.