"All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda."
- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

Source: Sinclair, Upton. 1925. Mammonart - an Essay in Economic Interpretation. in Ch. 2 "Who Owns the Artists?". Pasadena: Self. Quoted in Wikiquote. "Upton Sinclair". Available from URL http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair [Downloaded 2009-09-27].

"What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of "art for art's sake" than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore — and then there will be time enough for art."
- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

Source: Upton Sinclair in Cosmopolitan, 1906, quoted in SWADOS, Harvey. 1962. Radical's America. Little, Brown and Company. Available online from URL http://www.archive.org/stream/radicalsamericaa010992mbp/radicalsamericaa010992mbp_djvu.txt. [Downloaded 2009-09-27]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

Source: Sinclair, Upton. 1935. I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked, ISBN 0-520-08198-6; repr. University of California Press, 1994, p. 109. Quoted in Wikiquote. "Upton Sinclair". Available from URL http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair [Downloaded 2009-09-27].