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Quotes About Progress

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.
~ Marc Jacobs
Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
~ Paul Gauguin
Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
~ Victor Hugo
Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.
~ Stephen Boss
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
~ John Philip Sousa
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
~ Thom Mayne
He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
~ Oscar Wilde
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.
~ Clement Greenberg
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.
~ Unknown
The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.
~ Thomas Hoving
Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.
~ Philipp Meyer
I don't think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.
~ Donald Barthelme
Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.
~ Terence Koh
When your art fails, make better art.
~ Seth Godin
I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.
~ Tom Stoppard
Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.
~ Will Cotton
Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
~ Edwin Land
It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Science is our century's art.
~ Unknown
Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.
~ Laozi
There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
~ Marina Abramovic
If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.
~ Matisyahu