Artists and Politicians

I agree with Wright that artists and politicians stand at opposite poles. Artists use writing, painting, sculpting, and other artistic things to express their own views about what is going on around them. Wright considers himself to be an artist, as opposed to a politician, because he is trying to get his own ideas out into his communist group. Politicians differ from artists because they are trying to make changes for the entire good of the people, in most cases at least. Wright feels that artists and politicians differ because of their different approaches to dealing with situations. For example artists tend to be very idealistic where as politicians tend to analyze each little bit of information. I think that artists and politicians differ greatly because they have such different views on the same topics. In the end they are fighting for the same goals but the difference is how they choose to fight for that goal.