If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.
Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
Truth usually stammers at first.
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.