Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'
The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.
Frankly, with HBO and Showtime and cable shows, the DVD box sets and all, you can have a product that doesn't make you feel like as soon as it's projected, it's thrown away. It's really a piece of art.
I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.
Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.
I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
Good music is timeless, and if you create with that honesty, it will last.
The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.
