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Quotes About World

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it
~ Robert Redford
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
~ Bobby Knight
A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.
~ Donnie Yen
I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.
~ Frederick Busch
Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.
~ Jack London
I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.
~ Jenny Holzer
Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
~ Laurie Anderson
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.
~ Lucinda Williams
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
~ Marya Mannes
I think that the most exciting thing is to find a tool, like an art, with an opportunity to share. Real roots come from everywhere in the world. Why call is congress? Because it is a congress.
~ Unknown
Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.
~ Rachel Kushner
I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.
~ St. Lucia
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.
~ Terry Pratchett
I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.
~ Vik Muniz
For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
~ William Shakespeare
The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.
~ Heinrich Heine
[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.
~ Unknown
Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.
~ Solange nicole
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist
~ Rene Magritte
I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea
~ Kazimir Malevich
One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.
~ Unknown
Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.
~ James Rozoff