“The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.”

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best”

“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare and Aeschylus weren’t writing about kings? All good art is political! There is none that isn’t. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’ We’ve just dirtied the word ‘politics,’ made it sound like it’s unpatriotic or something.” Morrison laughs derisively. “That all started in the period of state art, when you had the communists and fascists running around doing this poster stuff, and the reaction was ‘No, no, no; there’s only aesthetics.’ My point is that is has to be both: beautiful and political at the same time. I’m not interested in art that is not in the world. And it’s not just the narrative, it’s not just the story; it’s the language and the structure and what’s going on behind it. Anybody can make up a story.”

“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”

“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.”

“The reason politics makes strange bedfellows is because they all like the same bunk.”