Quotes About Expression

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.