Quotes About Evolution

All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.

The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

Sometimes I look at some of my old work and I don't like it.

Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.

I got work to do. I got a lot of work to do within myself.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

That's what I think when people do their "best stuff" collection. When you start to think, "Oh, I will just present my 10 years of work," that's not a good sign.