Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
– Julius Henry Marx
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
– Ernest Benn
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
– Paul Valéry
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
– Paul Valery
Politics is the art of the possible.
– R. A. Butler
Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, "Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen.")
– Otto von Bismarck
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
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
– Barry Goldwater
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
– Virgil
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
– Don Marquis
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
– Ausonius
Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. Irony is a cheap shot.
– Robert Altman
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
– Franz Werfel
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
– Arthur Shopenhauer
Repetition is the death of art.
– Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...
– William Shakespeare
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
– Percy Wynham Lewis
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
– Willa Cather
Silence is one great art of conversation.
– Anonymous
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
– Tom Blair
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
– Tom Stoppard
So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
– Gloria Naylor
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
– Dejan Stojanovic
