Quotes About Change

Business can be a source of progressive change.

Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.

Which is the point: the future looks a lot more like the past than you might expect.

However, it does seem theologically objectionable to think God's attitude toward us would change in anything like this manner merely because we had died. There is no obvious reason why justice requires God to cease having mercy at death and to punish those who have not repented by that time.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. Successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country, because our parents are our first oppressors.

Don't keep on with what is wrong. Look ahead, not behind.

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

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.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

All art is a kind of exorcism. This is what gives art its power to change the conditions of our life.

Replace that old picture of defeat and failure with a new picture of victory and success.

You may not have been in control of your past, but you are in control of your future. And it's time to move forward.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

I wasn't sad after my father kissed the streetcar. If anything, it was a relief. Much as I missed him, his dying gave me an excuse to feel the way I already felt. Which was the way I felt right now, under the laundry room fluorescents: hollow, pissed off, wanting to be wherever I wasn't. Until I got there. Then I wanted to be somewhere else.

Sometimes I think life's nothin' but sittin' around watchin' pretty go bad.

Sometimes, it's like you know what people think: You know what they're thinking, and you know it's wrong. All you want to do if change their mind, but you can't.