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

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

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

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

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.

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

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

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

The arts don't exist in isolation.