Quotes of: Political-leaders Keyword

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left a...

Leon Krier

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

Thom Mayne

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Barbara Kruger

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.

Henry Adams

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

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

Jack Bowman

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

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

In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science.

Michael Leunig

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

Philipp Meyer

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

Ron Fournier

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

Thom Mayne

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

Alanna: The First Adventure

Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.

Adam Bede

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a cer...

Thom Yorke

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

The House of the Spirits

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

I don’t like dirt, because nothing is dirtier. Except politics.


If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.

The Shock of the Fall