A Quote by Robert Redford

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

Robert Redford

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Robert Redford
American - Actor
Born: August 18, 1936

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Michael Ignatieff

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

Arundhati Roy

Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art.

Eugene Ionesco

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

Paul Wellstone

As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York.

Reid Scott

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Mao Zedong

In politics things change, in politics timing is important, and in politics, how I move, I don't tell you.

Tan Cheng Bock

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Bruce Cockburn

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Kurt Vonnegut

The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals.

Italo Calvino

A constitutional monarchy requires the monarch to be above politics but to be fully informed about politics.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Youssou N'Dour

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

P. J. O'Rourke

Literature is higher than politics, if not actually above politics.

Gao Xingjian

The entertainment industry has three kinds of politics - sexual politics, money politics and power politics. A desperate actor can become victim of any of these political games.