Criteria Quote by Kehinde Wiley

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed…

— Ben Eine

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

— Jonathan Coe

I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.

— Lisa Stansfield

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

— Suzanne Vega

If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no…

— George Saunders

Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see…

— Toni Morrison

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

— Charles de Gaulle

It's hard to pin down what the politics would be, in a way. For me the politics are very visual and felt, thought, seen,…

— Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does…

— Revilo P. Oliver

There are nice political formulations that can apply to everyone and to nobody. I wouldn't know how I could be more reserved in my…

— Horst Seehofer

Every elite seeks its own perpetuation, of course, but that project is uniquely difficult in a society that's formally democratic and egalitarian and colorblind.

— Ross Douthat

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing,…

— John Rawls