Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
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 are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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.
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.