Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes

Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

I believe in the sacred mission of art to change history.

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

How can art make a difference in the world?

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.