Quotes About Evolution

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

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

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

Change art to include yourself.

We're all works of art in progress.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.