Quotes About Innovation

Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Art chooses its constraints.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

This is the golden age of grotesque.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.