Transformative Potential Quotes

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Every minute a chance to change the world.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations.

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development.

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way you work. I try to soak my work in my sense of futility and fury.

The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.

I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change.

We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.

There’s a lot of power in a little paint.

... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

I have always believed that cinema is one of the greatest instruments of positive social change. Stories can be light, engaging and poignant, but they need to say something.

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.