“Art can no longer afford to be contemptuous of politics, and it appears to be time politics took a little instruction from art.”
Something About a Soldier (1940)
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Franklin says this line in the HBO miniseries John Adams, but it is actually a quote of Otto von Bismarck.
(de) Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen. Interview (11 August 1867) with Friedrich Meyer von Waldeck of the St. Petersburgische Zeitung: Aus den Erinnerungen eines russischen Publicisten. 2. Ein Stündchen beim Kanzler des norddeutschen Bundes.
In: Die Gartenlaube (1876) p. 858 de.wikisource. Reprinted in Fürst Bismarck: neue Tischgespräche und Interviews, Vol. 1, p. 248 http://books.google.com/books?id=UpUBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA248&dq=%22die+Politik+ist+die+Lehre+vom+Möglichen%22
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Otto von Bismarck / Quotes / 1860s
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“Everything is art. Everything is politics.”
Coonan, Clifford. “ An Artist’s Struggle for Justice in China http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/an-artists-struggle-for-justice-in-china1912352.html.” Independent, February 27, 2010.
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“Politics is the art of human happiness.”
Source: A History of Europe (1934), Ch. 31.
“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”
"Why I Write," Gangrel (Summer 1946)
“Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“I don't take art as seriously as politics.”
