So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
Politics is activity in relation to power.
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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