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Quotes About Evolution

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
~ Perry Farrell
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
~ Jerry Saltz
Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
~ Kevin Kelly
Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.
~ Stephen Boss
When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.
~ Stephen Sprouse
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
~ John Crowe Ransom
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
~ Norman Granz
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.
~ Thomas Hoving
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
~ Diane Lane
I don't think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.
~ Donald Barthelme
Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.
~ Terence Koh
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
~ Salman Rushdie
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.
~ Thomas Hoving
Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.
~ Will Cotton
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
~ Jasper Johns
As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
~ Alan Moore
Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.
~ Laozi
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.
~ Marcel Duchamp
If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.
~ Matisyahu
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.
~ Mieczyslaw Jastrun
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
~ Nicholas Meyer