Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
In life beauty perishes, but not in art.
Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.
All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.
I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.
Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
When you make a great record, it's around forever.
Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to be heard, even if it's seldom heeded. After all the temporary influences that once directed the course of history have vanished, great art survives and continues to speak to each generation.
He was not of an age, but for all time!
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.
Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
I feel like Shakespeare is so epic, in a way that sci-fi genre stuff is epic, it transcends the mundane, and it takes you to this place of real passion and real beauty.
I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.
The older the violin, the sweeter the music.
I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.
