Quotes About Change

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.