We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
I think looks do matter on television.
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.
People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.
In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.
It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.
What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?