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The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics
— Jonathan Alter
Common Lisp is politics, not art.
— Scott Fahlman
Norman Rockwell saved my life.
— Jane Allen Petrick
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
— Groucho Marx
I don't take art as seriously as politics.
— Orson Welles
One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
— Bruce Sterling
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
— A.S. Byatt
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
— Frank Herbert
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
— Charles De Gaulle
Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.
— John Luther Adams
Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.
— Luc Tuymans
Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.
— William Everson
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
— Robert Redford
Politics is the art of making civilization work.
— Louis L'Amour
In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.
— Vincent Price
Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
— Tatyana Tolstaya
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
— Hillary Clinton
Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Politics is the art of the next best.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
— Indira Gandhi
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Politics is the art of anesthesia.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I avoid contemporary TV ... politics ... art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.
— Dean Koontz
I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
— Rachel Kushner
Art transcends politics this weekend.
— Barbra Streisand
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
— Tom Robbins
In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic.
— Mona Van Duyn
Great art must not be sullied by politics. One would never, after all, seek to embellish the Mona Lisa, not even with a swastika.
— Timur Vermes
Politics is the art of persuasion. Good ideas die because due to a lack of charisma or character.
— A.E. Samaan
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best
— Otto Von Bismarck
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
— Konrad Adenauer
Diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
— Ambrose Bierce
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
— William Butler Yeats
The art of politics is to be ahead of your time
about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there. — Gloria Steinem
about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there. — Gloria Steinem
The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences
— Alexander Cockburn
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,
— William J. Bennett
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
— Tony Kushner
Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
— Adam Michnik
Art and politics have many things in common.
— Tania Bruguera
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
— Harold Rosenberg
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
— Zephyr Teachout
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.
— Peter Schjeldahl
When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.
— Gerard De Marigny
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
— Carl Andre
Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
Let's be happy and forget all about art and politics!
— Marty Rubin
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
— E.L. Doctorow
Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
As cultural politics change, museums change with them.
— Sharon Waxman
Politics is not a science ... but an art.
— Otto Von Bismarck
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
— Rita Mae Brown
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
— Paul Valery
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
— Youssou N'Dour
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is the art of the possible.
— Otto Von Bismarck
The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.
— John Frohnmayer
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
— Albert Einstein
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
— Rachel Kushner
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
— Harry S. Truman
Everything is art. Everything is politics.
— Ai Weiwei
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
— Douglas Sirk
The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
— Scilla Elworthy
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
— Aristotle.
No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
— George Orwell
I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level of any ideological trash.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
— Oscar Ameringer
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
— Walter Benjamin