Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

It is in this power of saying everything and yet saying nothing too plainly that the perfection of art consists.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

In general the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art like morality consists in drawing the line somewhere.

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara California Sunday 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

Health consists with temperance alone.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms but in mutual trust alone.