Bela Bartok Quotes

One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

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

Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

I just want people to see my growth as an artist, and singer.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

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