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Quotes About Transformation

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
~ Unknown
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
~ Ayelet Waldman
The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.
~ Bertrand Russell
When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.
~ Chath Piersath
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.
~ Coco Chanel
Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
~ Elvis Costello
You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
~ Fefe Dobson
Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.
~ Frederick Lenz
Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.
~ Frederick Lenz
The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.
~ Frederick Lenz
I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.
~ Jordi Molla
I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.
~ Julia Cameron
True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.
~ Louise Bogan
I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
~ Narciso Rodriguez
Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.
~ Pamela Love
I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.
~ Unknown
New arts destroy the old.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.
~ Ray Davies
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
~ Seth Godin
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .
~ Shana Alexander
A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.
~ Shohreh Aghdashloo
She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.
~ Veronica Roth
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
~ William Rounseville Alger