Corita Kent Quotes

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

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!

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

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

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.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

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

Cultural change always precedes political change.

It is terrific to be involved with changing people's perceptions, and the world is changing.

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.

There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

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.

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

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

I think we're at a really critical time in terms of art, and I think it's totally possible to have a project that is entertaining but also moving the cultural needle forward. I think it's one of the reasons I'm so grateful to work on 'Billions.'

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

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

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.