All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

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SCOTT DERRICKSON

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but of...
UPTON SINCLAIR

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
JOHN F. KENNEDY

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Art is more engaging that propaganda.
LARRY NORMAN

Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS

I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all w...
ELIZABETH DREW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits,...
CARY FUKUNAGA The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a...
DAVID MAMET I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and P...
GEOFFREY FISHER Cellar Roots is not just for art and writing majors at EMU. Any EMU student can contribute. There is...
JENNIFER ARMSTRONG Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends withou...
FRANCIS MACDONALD CORNFORD Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends withou...
FRANCES CORNFORD We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old ty...
GARRY KASPAROV Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for pol...
ANTONY BEEVOR The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream Ame...
WILLIAM GIBSON I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the im...
KEITH HARING And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful form...
JOHN GRIERSON I would hate to be like little Harry Connick, being used for propaganda. I like Harry, but that's no...
HARRY CONNICK, JR. I would hate to be like little Harry Connick, being used for propaganda. I like Harry, but that's no...
HARRY CONNICK JR. Art should be for sale. The artist should not.
A.E. SAMAAN Rap is an acronym for rhetoric and propaganda.
JIM ALTUM You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, an...
RITA MAE BROWN Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore ha...
C. JOYBELL C. For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world ...
SHEPARD FAIREY Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Propaganda as an art form is kind of funny. Golf is funny. It just put a smile on my face.
DANNY ROBERTS Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is th...
G.K. CHESTERTON It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken fo...
HARRY BROWNE Propaganda must not serve the truth especially not insofar as it might bring out something favorable...
ADOLF HITLER There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sl...
W.H. AUDEN Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches y...
BRAD HOLLAND In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the ...
KATE ADIE Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
THEODOR ADORNO I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married an...
BILLIE BURKE “Art is everything you see. Boardgames are art, songs are art, books are art, art is a precious th...
J C A ROWE I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.
JOHN WATERS Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable fo...
ADOLF HITLER And this the burden of his song / For ever used to be, / I care for nobody, not I, / If no one cares...
ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the...
AYAD AKHTAR There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption...
NOAM CHOMSKY Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been...
BELL HOOKS People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to ...
WOLE SOYINKA Art Exist for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, a...
SHINICHI SUZUKI Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primari...
STIEG LARSSON Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
JORGE LUIS BORGES Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for suppo...
SEAN HANNITY Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like...
RENZO PIANO Science needs no propaganda. Many maniacs and many experts eat, drink, sleep, breathe and dream scie...
APURVA GAGLANI I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has bee...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to ...
JOHN AMERY Silence is the most expensive to buy.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's ...
SARAH JONES The only class that I was having a hard time with was my art elective. I couldn’t draw worth a dam...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignoranc...
ABERJHANI From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by an...
WINSLOW HOMER I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'
ANDRE HOLLAND Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped o...
CLAES OLDENBURG What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.
REINALDO ARENAS Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order...
E. M. FORSTER Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order...
E.M. FORSTER How do I define art? A work of art is not an object of monetary value; it is a timid attempt by man ...
OSKAR KOKOSCHKA It's about individual women and their personal tragedies, ... The play traces the arc of the grievin...
BRAD WRIGHT I think they all do it for the same reason. They have to believe that art is important to society an...
JUDI JEDLICKA I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in th...
RICHARD WAGNER I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
CARL ANDRE I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worri...
PETER GREENAWAY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay h...
PAUL WATZLAWICK Documentary photography has nothing whatsoever to do with art. But it is an art for all that.
WALKER EVANS PEOPLE use the word propaganda towards things they cant comprehend, it is obvious. There are plenty ...
JAK ZOUDI Art is for everyone. A lot of people think that art is this thing [reserved] for a select group of e...
CONNIE CATION The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgus...
GEORGE ORWELL I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
CARL ANDRE Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w...
RAY BRADBURY It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
HAROLD PINTER A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to P...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerf...
JEFF KOONS The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology,...
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E. W. HOWE If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums wo...
E. W. HOWE Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
E. W. HOWE Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
E. W. HOWE A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
E. W. HOWE The most destructive criticism is indifference.
E. W. HOWE Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found t...
E. W. HOWE The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling i...
E. W. HOWE Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. HOWE Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which d...
E. W. HOWE A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
E. W. HOWE Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
E. W. HOWE One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
E. W. HOWE The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
E. W. HOWE Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
E. W. HOWE When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will hav...
E. W. HOWE The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ...
E. W. HOWE A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. HOWE The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciat...
E. W. HOWE The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...
W. E. CHANNING The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
E. W. DIJKSTRA Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. DIJKSTRA It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult...
E. W. HOWE Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
E. W. HOWE To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
E. W. HOWE Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
E. W. HOWE When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up...
E. W. HOWE A thief believes everybody steals.
E. W. HOWE The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
E. W. HOWE There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
E. W. HOWE The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and ...
E. W. DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offen...
E. W. DIJKSTRA It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposur...
E. W. DIJKSTRA There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. HOWE The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
E. W. HOWE The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at ...
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