Quotes About Change

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Now my tapestry's unraveling.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

History develops, art stands still.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Art and politics have many things in common.