Art Quote by Adalbert Stifter

“Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.”

— Jan Swafford

“...I believe that nothing that once was can be completely undone. Even if destroyed in the material world and forgotten by men, it remains…

— Paul O. Kristeller

“In art, the present is the eternal.”

— Kakuzo Okakura

“Art is not eternal.”

— Tom Wolfe

“But with one exception, all things pass from this world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument…

— Dean Koontz

“Everything that’s created remains as it was before it was created. The artist fetches it down from the heavens as a finished thing. Eternity…

— Karl Kraus

“And because when all the words of promises and memories fade, these words that are written are the only one that remain. People may…

— Happy Positivity

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

“Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and…

— Boris Pasternak

“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life…

— Patrick Nowell-Smith

“Art, and sadness, which last forever.”

— Sara Baume

“Eternity is an artist; time is its masterpiece.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo