Social Art Quotes

Art belongs to the people.

Art lies because it's social.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community... Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it... It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store... that’s the only way art can function naturally.

When you're an artist, you're generally working at home alone in a studio. It's just really good to get with other guys and make art something you can share.

Language is a social art.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko... all believed in the social role of art... Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art with engineering; music with painting; poetry with design; fine art with propaganda; photographs with typography; diagrams with action; the studio with the street.

There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.

Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.'

Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.

In the 1980s, Josef Beuys planted the seed that activism could be considered as art. I am influenced by the idea of his idea of social sculpture.

When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social collective.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.