Top 100 The Art Of Politics Quotes
#1. The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.
Jean Chretien
#3. The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad Adenauer
#4. 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
#6. From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.
Abigail Adams
#7. Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#8. Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.
Doris Salcedo
#9. An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants, and both sides shot him.
John Frohnmayer
#10. Without a clear focus on the scandal of wage labor and original accumulation, on capitalism's awful history of possession and dispossession, both art and politics mistake images for the enemy.
Anonymous
#11. Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.
Brian Cox
#12. In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Douglas Sirk
#13. I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families. But I often return to one thing I said way back then - that politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible.
Hillary Clinton
#14. It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert Redford
#15. We will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
N. T. Wright
#16. Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
Thomas Sowell
#17. Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.
Jon Meacham
#18. Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
Quentin Crisp
#19. Art
the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos
art, not politics, is the remedy.
Saul Bellow
#20. All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?
Chloe Thurlow
#21. The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#22. 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
#23. The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.
Hippolyte Taine
#24. The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.
John Frohnmayer
#25. Often we had no choice: we couldn't reform the whole world. And didn't somebody once say 'Politics is the art of the possible'?" "Quite true - which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
#26. If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
Yann Martel
#27. Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Fletcher Knebel
#28. Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?
Aristotle.
#29. If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it's not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.
Marilyn Manson
#30. Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
Adam Michnik
#31. Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
Antonio Damasio
#32. Politics is the art of making civilization work.
Louis L'Amour
#34. The art of diplomacy is often to tell someone you want to be their best friend, but failing that, you might have to destroy them. It's kind of like Christianity. Congressman Lance Boyd.
Jayden Hunter
#35. In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.
Jay L. Garfield
#36. My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
Carl Andre
#37. 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
#38. The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#39. If you had to choose between art and the slogan, or between history and the slogan, you might as well choose the slogan and have done with pretending even to care about art and history. The reduction of all things to politics must reduce them, in their own right, to irrelevance.
Anthony Esolen
#41. Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.
William Everson
#42. Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression.
Kim Gordon
#43. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx
#44. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#45. One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
Bruce Sterling
#46. As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
Hari Kunzru
#47. In all sorts of markets - music, film, art, and politics - the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of radio and television democratizes and the channels of exposure grow.... The gatekeepers had their day. Now there are simply too many gates to keep.
Derek Thompson
#48. No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best
Otto Von Bismarck
#50. Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
Harry S. Truman
#51. I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
Adrienne Rich
#52. 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
#53. During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.
John Frohnmayer
#54. Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
Henri Queuille
#56. When you examine the genesis of great works of art, successful start-ups, and revolutionary shifts in politics, you can always trace back a history of monetary and nonmonetary exchange, the hidden patrons and underlying favors.
Amanda Palmer
#57. My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there was always that refusal to settle in one place, or one discipline or medium.
Roselee Goldberg
#58. Half of politics is "image-making", the other half the art of making people believe the imager
Hannah Arendt
#60. All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.
Pete Seeger
#61. Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery
#62. Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
Adam Michnik
#63. Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
Voltaire
#64. Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations.
Aman Mojadidi
#65. If my fellow Americans could adopt even a fraction of the French attitude about food and life (don't worry, you don't have to sign on to the politics, too), managing weight would cease to be a terror, an obsession, and reveal its true nature as part of the art of living.
Mireille Guiliano
#66. The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton
#67. Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
Indira Gandhi
#68. You have to give me something, Seafort. Politics is the art of the possible." Father gazed at the Station. "Sir, I can give you nothing. Morality is ... the art of the absolute.
David Feintuch
#69. Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.
Lewis H. Lapham
#70. The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
Alan Dean Foster
#73. Rock was different from rock and roll. Rock was virtuosic and adult, as opposed to popsy and teenaged. Rock and roll was apolitical and fun, while rock was "heavy" and often political, creating vistas of psychic energy that carried beyond the music itself and into radical politics and art.
Stephen Davis
#74. Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
Frank Herbert
#75. The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.
Eric S. Rabkin
#76. That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
Anita Loos
#77. 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.
Mao Zedong
#78. Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.
Antony Gormley
#79. Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman
Hans J. Morgenthau
#80. I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
Rachel Kushner
#81. If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.
Herbert Blau
#82. Philosophy is the art of seeing through appearances to discern the hidden reality.
Alan Ryan
#83. Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.
John F. Kerry
#84. All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
James Mark Baldwin
#85. Diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce
#87. During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.
Kenneth Goff
#88. Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.
Orrin Woodward
#89. Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.
Ben Lerner
#90. Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics, and nothing about politicians. He also knew a great deal about art, letters, philosophy, and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in.
G.K. Chesterton
#91. Politics is the art of persuasion. Good ideas die because due to a lack of charisma or character.
A.E. Samaan
#92. Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
Ben Okri
#93. The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Harold Rosenberg
#94. The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art
Gaetano Pesce
#95. Politics is the art of reaching a goal that benefits all citizens of a nation.
Khem Veasna
#96. Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.
P. J. O'Rourke
#97. Truth and politics do not and cannot mix because politics is the art of saying only what needs to be said - and saying it in just the right way - in order to achieve a desired end.
Neale Donald Walsch
#98. Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.
Tristan Tzara
#99. Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.
Gore Vidal
#100. My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.
Rosanne Cash
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