Stacey D'Erasmo Quotes

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

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

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

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

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

This call for a new culture is not a new idea.

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

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

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

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.