Quotes About Age

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

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

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

This is the golden age of grotesque.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

It draws its name from rocks that are characteristic of the Permian geologic age, which ended with the "great extinction" that wiped out most living creatures about 250 million years ago.

true in eighth grade, when Gracie was in first grade.

I do not believe in age," he said with determination. "It is a very small idea. Like a small box. That box is too small for you. You have no limits, you are free.

women couldn't afford dead-end relationships after the age of twenty-eight, or they ran the risk of getting stuck in them for years

Whatever age you are," her mother said tartly, "age is just a number, and numbers have no power over you, unless you allow them to. You can feel 'too old' at any age, if you let yourself. You're never too old or too young for anything, you're just the right age.

someone, and had never dated anyone his age.

His wife was a tall, stringy woman, perhaps five years older than her husband—say, forty—with a mouth and chin that seemed shaped for gossiping.