Quotes About Legacy

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

All I owe the world is my art.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

Art is the most important way of recording history.

We will die, but art will remain.

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 years old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.