The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Mankind's true moral test its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Besides the noble art of getting things done there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

It is in this power of saying everything and yet saying nothing too plainly that the perfection of art consists.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

In general the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.