Quotes About Change

Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

The best thing about photography: it changes your point of view.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.

Creativity can impact some sort of "CHANGE" in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure "DIFFERENCES" and work together for a common cause.

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.

When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.