“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”– Hunter S. Thompson Related Quotes “The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.”– Louise Brooks “Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”– John Ciardi “I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”– Anthony Kiedis