Quotes About Impact

When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

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.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.