Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.
It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that ...
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.
I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are...
Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
The power to change is in my hands.
If I see a homeless person begging for change, I might give them money, if they’ve got change for a nickel.
Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
Change, like healing, takes time.
The ultimate test of a transformational leader is the ability to raise up a new generation of leaders.
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how t...
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
