William Empson (1906–1984) English literary critic and poet
Some Versions of Pastoral (London: Chatto & Windus, 1935) p. 15.
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“While politics is the art of the possible, history is the art of the impossible. I have never hesitated in attempting the impossible. What is historically relevant may not be politically prudent. One has to make one’s choices.”
The Lonely Punter: V.P.Singh
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Gustav Metzger (1926–2017) Artist and political activist
Gustav Metzger: 'Destroy, and you create', 2012
“Politics is the art of the possible.”
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany
Franklin says this line in the HBO miniseries John Adams, but it is actually a quote of Otto von Bismarck.<br><br>(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.<br><br>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<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Otto von Bismarck / Quotes / 1860s <br class="br">Misattributed
Joseph Kosuth (1945) American conceptual artist
Joseph Kosuth, “Introduction” in Art After Philosophy and After: Collected Writings, 1960–1990 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991); cited in: Thierry Mortier. " Semiotics as Art: Kosuth http://www.semionaut.net/semiotics-as-art-joseph-kosuth/," Sunday, 1 July 2012.
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) British political theorist and democratic socialist
Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 151.
Tracey Emin (1963) English artist, one of the group known as Britartists or Young British Artists
"Artist Emin leaves us baffled" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1693678.stm BBC, (2001-12-06) <br class="br">Emin was given the Plain English Campaign's "Foot in Mouth" award for this remark, made in a newspaper interview.
“Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) British political theorist and democratic socialist
Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 29.