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• I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

  Tiberius

  Men, Long, Support

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• With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Definitions, Generations

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• As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Self, Profound

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• A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Reality, Needs, Painting

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• The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Ideas, World

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• Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.

  Emily Carr

  Light, Yellow, Heartache

  Emily Carr, Michael Breur, Kerry Mason Dodd (1984). “Sunlight in the shadows: the landscape of Emily Carr”

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• When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Two, Differences, Different

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

  William J. Clinton

  Powerful, Our World, Profound

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1, Best Books on

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• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  Zach Wamp

  Blue, Oil, Facts

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• It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The descriptive and anecdotal come second.

  Wolf Kahn

  Color, Decision, Demand

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• Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

  John Newman

  Differences, Environment, Paint

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• Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.

  Nichiren

  Spring, Winter, Autumn

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• I had no idea that things would change so rapidly, so drastically.

  Bern Will Brown

  Ideas, No Idea

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• A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

  Pablo Picasso

  Done, Being Done

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Names, Careers

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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  I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, Philosophy, Inspiration

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

  Peter Drucker

  Long, Would Be, Upheaval

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.62, Routledge

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Business, Mean, Science

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

  Philip Pullman

  Being Yourself, Life Changing, Just Being You

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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  Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Long, Important

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Growth, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

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• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Wind, Dawn

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.57, Penguin

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