Browsing Topic Best Political Art Quotes

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this committed political art and the relation between beauty, violence, and memory. A tour de force.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

Cinema is always a political art, at the end.

My problem with political art is not that it’s bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.