Quotes About Time

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

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

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

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

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

timeliness is an enemy to art.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

Art is long, life is short.