Quotes About Timeless

A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.

Rock 'n' roll is not unlike love. You find it oddly strangely comforting that no matter how old you get, when it comes to matters of the heart, you're always 15 inside.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

Mount Rushmore is eternal. It will stand until the end of time.

We've been called the soundtrack of people's lives. There have been lots of downs, of course but mostly ups. That EW&F is still clicking at least twenty years on and has a life of its own, that the songs have stayed alive - we're like a good book that people go back to.

We've had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We're human beings, and we're not perfect. And we're mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries.

Ours has been as good and enduring a marriage as so many marriages that have survived the ups and downs for four decades.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.

I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more # romantic than the present day

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

Steve Buscemi is the little black dress of cinema, appropriate for any occasion.

Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

I still love listening to the old stuff - Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, you know. I stick to the old school stuff, but I love Mark Ronson. I love John Legend.