Quotes About Revolution

All art of the past must be destroyed.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

Fashion is above all an art of change.

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

New arts destroy the old.

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.