Lauren Jauregui Quotes

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

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

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

My role as an artist is not to make changes [in society] but to inspire changes.

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

I want to continue to produce shows that directly effect change.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

My paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau for tourism. We have given up that revolution of the contemporary.

The only way you can make change is by moving someone, making them laugh, making them cry. But art has to be at the forefront of change.

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change.

Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

I do believe that painting can change the world.

The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.