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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.