Quotes About Legacy

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

Every old poem is sacred.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.