"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business." ― Paul Valery Topic(s): Art More From Paul Valery "History is the science of things which are not repeated." "Love is being stupid together." "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." More In Art "Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy."― Rudy Giuliani "Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."― Groucho Marx "It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."― W. H. Auden