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The most interesting stuff happens when an authoritarian government removes itself a little and gives this margin of freedom. And then art is grabbed with both hands.

— Pawel Pawlikowski

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

— Tom Stoppard

Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.

— Mike Huckabee

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

— Joe Haldeman

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

— Henry Flynt

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

— Elfriede Jelinek

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

— Stephen Sondheim

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

— D.R.A.M.

✗Opposing Perspectives

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

— Albert Camus