Quotes About Change

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

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.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

New arts destroy the old.

Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.

You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.