John Maeda Quotes

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

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

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

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.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

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

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it

The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.

Frank Sinatra changed people's approach to singing. Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, van Gogh, they were all part of movements that allowed people to think about their craft differently. They changed the game. These people changed the game.

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.