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Quotes About Progress

Living well is an art that can be developed.
~ Maya Angelou
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.
~ Mieczyslaw Jastrun
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
~ O. Henry
I look for what needs to be done
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.
~ Twyla Tharp
Technology adds nothing to art.
~ Penn Jillette
Business Art is the step that comes after Art.
~ Andy Warhol
I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
~ Beatrice Wood
3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.
~ Unknown
I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.
~ Damien Hirst
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.
~ Derek R. Audette
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
~ E. L. James
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.
~ Jerry Saltz
Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.
~ Jonny Lee Miller
Art is a step in the known toward the unknown
~ Khalil Gibran
Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.
~ Paul Virilio
Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.
~ Paul Virilio
In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.
~ Ai Weiwei
We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.
~ Ambrose Bierce