Quotes About Transformation

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

We're all works of art in progress.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

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.

For art to be art it has to cure.

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

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

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

History develops, art stands still.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

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

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.