Albert Camus Quotes

I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Grasp Revolution

I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.

It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.

Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

Mercy, it's the revolution and I'm in my bathrobe!

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.