Timeless Expression Quotes

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.

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

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

No art should be fashionable.

A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

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

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.

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

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral, it wasn't going to be finished until 1585. So they were thinking 200 years from now. Maybe by the time I die, this wall might be put up.

Got niggas reacting without a sinus cause what I'm working with is timeless.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.