“Events are weapons for politicization of art.”

— Wolf Vostell

Cited in: Hans Heinz Holz (1972). Vom Kunstwerk zur Ware: Studien zur Funktion des ästhetischen Gegenstandes im Spätkapitalismus. p. 204
Original: Ereignisse sind Waffen zur Politisierung der Kunst.

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German painter and sculptor 1932–1998

Riiko Sakkinen (1976) Finnish visual artist

"Art" at riikosakkinen.com http://www.riikosakkinen.com/info/quotes/
Context: Art is a weapon and the weapons can change the world.
Good art is irreverent, excessive, controversial, incorrect, irritating, ironic, bad behaving, playful and beautiful or ugly.

“Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.”

Gottfried Helnwein (1948) Austrian photographer and painter

Interview by Marc Kayser, art-magazine Quest, Berlin, March 2004

“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

La peinture n'est pas faite pour décorer des appartements. C'est un instrument de guerre offensive et défensive contre l'ennemi.
La pintura no se ha inventado para adornar las habitaciones. La pintura es un arma ofensiva, en la defensa contra el enemigo.
Les lettres françaises (1943-03-24).
Quotes, 1940's

“Manipulation is an art, but it is a double-edged knife and can be a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands.”

Titon Rahmawan

“The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.”

Thomas C. Schelling (1921–2016) American economist

Nobel Prize lecture (2005)

“The parity pushers fail to see the subtle grays of complexity in all of its tortured and messy manifestations. With swords held high, they ride forth and exploit every possible weapon in the political arsenal. Equality is to be imposed, unevenness and nonlinearity banished to the nether world. Science is politicalized for mass consumption, and natural laws are summarily supplanted by ideological 'correctness.”

L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer

Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 301

“The Art of painting is itself an intensely personal activity… a picture is a unique and private event in the life of the painter”

Patrick Swift (1927–1983) British artist

"The Painter in the Press", X magazine, Vol. I, No.4 (October 1960).
Context: The Art of painting is itself an intensely personal activity… a picture is a unique and private event in the life of the painter: an object made alone with a man and a blank canvas... A real painting is something which happens to the painter once in a given minute; it is unique in that it will never happen again and in this sense is an impossible object... And it is something which happens in life not in art: a picture which was merely the product of art would not be very interesting and could tell us nothing we were not already aware of. The old saying, “what you don’t know can’t hurt you”, expresses the opposite idea to that which animates the painter before his canvas. It is precisely what he does not know which may destroy him.