Art Quote by Anna Deavere Smith Download Open image “I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.” — Anna Deavere Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Thinking Time
Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period drama with… — Claudia Jessie Copy Share Image
I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time. — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us. — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world. — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share
I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day,… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
