Propaganda Art Quotes

#1. Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Larry Norman

#2. A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

Susan Sontag

#3. In the largest sense, every work of art is protest ... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it ... A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out ...

Pete Seeger

#4. Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

Brad Holland

#5. Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Junot Diaz

#6. Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

David Mamet

#7. To do what we should in art is bondage. To tell others, with our art, what they should think or feel or do, is propaganda.

David DuChemin

#8. All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

George Orwell

#9. The anthology was not a best-seller; art as a weapon seldom is.

Lyle W. Dorsett

#10. Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

Art Spiegelman

#11. It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

George Orwell

#12. All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Upton Sinclair

#13. Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

Leonard Nimoy

#14. Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#15. All art is propaganda.

George Orwell

#16. I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.

A.R. Rahman

#17. Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Francis Cornford

#18. Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording ... Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.

Aldous Huxley

#19. Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

Rebecca West

#20. The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

Gustave Le Bon

#21. Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels.

Glenn Beck

#22. I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Keith Haring

#23. In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

Bill Kovach

#24. All great art and literature is propaganda.

George Bernard Shaw

#25. All truly great art is propaganda ...

Ann Petry

#26. All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

Walter Benjamin

#27. And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

John Grierson

#28. Art is inherently subversive. It's destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

Deborah Eisenberg

#29. Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

#30. I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian- Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success.

Adolf Hitler

#31. After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

Niall Ferguson

#32. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

#33. I very much enjoyed Leo Tolstoy's What is Art? I can't quote it, it's been a while, but at the end of the day, the idea is that "art that does good in the world is art, and what doesn't is not. It's propaganda or something else. It's bad."

Scott Avett

#34. Man, didn't anybody ever tell you that art is propaganda? It doesn't matter whether you think it should be or it shouldn't be, it just is, and motherfucker, like or not, you're sitting on a funky Magna Carta.

Paul Beatty

#35. Propaganda rarely makes good art.

Susan Sutherland Isaacs

#36. Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

A.E. Samaan

#37. The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.

Clement Greenberg