Eternal Art Quotes

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

The constant is always mythologies and the very first stories that we have. All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

Romance can end, but I don't think art really ends, as romantic as that might sound.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal that the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those who wish to undermine this principle undermines the foundations of our independence and national security . . . The message of the (Islamic) Revolution is global, and is not restricted to a specific place or time . . . Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.

I want to make timeless movies.

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.