Quotes About Evolution

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Technology adds nothing to art.

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.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Art is a self-replicating force.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.