Today I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics art must be restored to the center of public education.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble finding it everywhere diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Architecture is politics.
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
Chicago is known for good steaks expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics violent crime and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society with politics with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society how it functions how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.