Quotes About Innovation

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

Art simply can't be stopped.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

timeliness is an enemy to art.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

Art history is always changing too.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].