Quotes About Transformation

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

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

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

Making art is a journey.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

She has given me a way out.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.