“Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.”
“Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
“...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art.”
“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.”
“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political and economic struggles.”