Quotes About Change

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

I look for what needs to be done

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Technology adds nothing to art.

3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

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

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.