Quotes About Adaptation

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.

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

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

I think Mixed Martial Arts is going to be a huge thing coming up in pro wrestling, and I like to think of myself as one of the first guys to try and implement that into my style.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

When your art fails, make better art.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.