Quotes About Time

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

History develops, art stands still.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

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.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

Art is a delayed echo.

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.