Quotes About Impact

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

Art and politics have many things in common.

Art changes people people change the world.

Art destroys silence.

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it's going to do it visually or physically, I'll take either way.

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

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

We rappers are role models.

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.