Best art-is & propaganda Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Book:A patriot after all, 1940-1941

Source: A patriot after all, 1940-1941

“All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.”

“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...”

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Author:Pete Seeger

“Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.”

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Book:Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

Source: Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

“All truly great art is propaganda.”

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Author:Ann Petry

“Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“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.”

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Book:Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.”