Top 43 Art Revolution Quotes
#2. In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.
E.L. Konigsburg
#3. Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.
Kailash Kher
#4. I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
Nelson Mandela
#5. The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
Britt Daniel
#6. Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#7. The theory of thought is like painting: it needs that revolution which took art from representation to abstraction. This is the aim of a theory of thought without image.
Gilles Deleuze
#8. And yet at Yan'an, Mao said that art and literature were crucial to revolution. Conversely, he warned, art and literature could also be tools of domination. Art
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#9. By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.
Jerry Della Femina
#10. Every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.
Rebecca West
#11. I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.
Meagan Earls
#12. What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
Robert Hughes
#13. LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.
A.E. Samaan
#14. By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.
Christian Dior
#15. The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.
Ziad Doueiri
#16. Just think for a moment if science really could move in the field of authenticity of works of art. There would be a cultural revolution to say the least, but also, I would say, a market revolution, let me add.
Maurizio Seracini
#17. So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
John Cage
#18. Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence
whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.
Mason Cooley
#19. In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.
Jonas Salk
#20. Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail ...
Gerhard Richter
#21. Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.
Ray Davies
#22. When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.
Richard Serra
#23. An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.
Toni Cade Bambara
#24. The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
Blaise Pascal
#25. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz
#26. There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.
Charles-Edward A. Winslow
#27. Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.
Octavio Paz
#29. I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
Yayoi Kusama
#30. In the Year 2000 the discovery of extraterrestrial life will create a revolution in science, art, and pornography.
Conan O'Brien
#31. All art is in revolution of tyranny.
Atticus
#32. In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Bela Bartok
#33. The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.
Blaise Pascal
#34. The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Albert Einstein
#35. Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
Tony Kushner
#36. Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.
Robert A. Heinlein
#37. This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
Edvard Munch
#38. One thing that has happened is a revolution in digital consumer recording, and overall, that's a great thing for art, but parallel to that there's been a revolution in boutique audio companies making excellent gear.
John Vanderslice
#40. It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
E.L. Konigsburg
#41. True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.
Louise Bogan
#42. The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Harold Rosenberg
#43. Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gaugin
