Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

A lot of women these days a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap hideous 'girl power' sort of fad which I think is pretty benign at best but at worst I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

In politics strangely enough the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics and in the modern age in the West is is the last best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

In the 19th century you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Today I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics art must be restored to the center of public education.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.