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From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.

— August Wilson

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✓Similar Perspectives

All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

— Wadada Leo Smith

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

— Dario Fo

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

— Jack Bowman

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

— Philipp Meyer

✗Opposing Perspectives

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

— Rachel Kushner

The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say, might want to go in a certain direction, and while it may seem like it has resonance with things that are happening topically, you kind of want the world you're creating to have its own internal logic.

— Tim Minear

Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

— D.R.A.M.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

— Joyce Carol Oates

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

— August Wilson