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Quotes About Change

Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.
~ Jenny Saville
If you want to change your art, change your habits.
~ Clement Greenberg
All art of the past must be destroyed.
~ Pierre Boulez
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.
~ Francis Picabia
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
~ Pablo Picasso
When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.
~ Muso Soseki
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
~ Bela Bartok
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.
~ Blaise Pascal
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
~ Thomas Sowell
I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.
~ Lady Gaga
If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.
~ Guy Ritchie
Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.
~ Tania Bruguera
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
~ Benjamin Cardozo
Change art to include yourself.
~ Joseph Kosuth
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
~ John Locke
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Use your art to fight.
~ Arundhati Roy
Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.
~ Claes Oldenburg
She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.
~ Jack Johnson
Fashion is above all an art of change.
~ John Galliano
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.
~ Buenaventura Durruti
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
~ Joseph Conrad
The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.
~ Shahin Najafi