Quotes About Power

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.

Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!