It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble finding it everywhere diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Architecture is politics.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.