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I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you're a woman.
Mickalene Thomas
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Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.
Billy Porter
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I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.


Lena Dunham
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I'm a guy that learns from making mistakes. Sometimes that's not the best way to learn, but that's how I learn.
Brock Osweiler
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Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.
CeeLo Green
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
Andrew Greeley
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Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
Sonny Perdue
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I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.
Steve Wynn
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.


Hunter S. Thompson
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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.
Thom Yorke
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
Dana Schutz
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I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still have the right approach to making music. In the U.S., people see it as a way to make money; they see it as a means to get out. It's a hustle, which is great - any way you can provide for your family that's legal is fantastic.
Jay-Z
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.


Lord Acton
The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had to decide, Why do I want to be a writer? I realized that writing is the thing itself; writing is not a means to publication, writing is not a predicate of publication, so I spent years making art for art's sake.
Paul Harding
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.


Martin Heidegger
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It is difficult to make political art work.


Thom Yorke
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.


Ed Rendell
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.


Seamus Heaney
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.


Barbara Kingsolver
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