Quotes About Evolution

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

New arts destroy the old.

Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.

You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.