There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.


Selected works of Mao Tse-Tung (Pergamon Press, 1967), p. 86

Mao Zedong Quotes

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics....

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics....

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics....

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics....