Quotes About Progress

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

Color will play no part in the art of future.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.

I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.