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Quotes About Evolution

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
~ Paul McCartney
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.
~ Samuel Butler
Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.
~ Susan Sontag
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
~ Alfred de Vigny
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
~ Unknown
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.
~ Angela Carter
In the '70s it was skateboards, in the '80s it was drugs, in the '90s it was art, and now it's my family.
~ Anthony
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Art history is always changing too.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.
~ Banksy
The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.
~ Bertrand Russell
It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
~ Charles de Lint
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.
~ Coco Chanel
I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.
~ Craig Ferguson
I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.
~ David Hockney
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
~ David Mamet
I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.
~ Douglas Adams
I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.
~ El-P
Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
~ Elvis Costello
To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
~ Eudora Welty
You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
~ Fefe Dobson
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
~ Georges Braque
My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.
~ Georges St-Pierre
Color will play no part in the art of future.
~ Gunter Brus