Artist Quote by Anonymous

And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only…

— Anton Webern

The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of…

— David Hume

“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly naked, and…

— William Barrett

“Man forges his own history, imposing on nature the errors of his free will. If hatred and greed drag man down among bloody mazes,…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of…

— James A. Baldwin

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed…

— Bruno Walter

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they…

— Aldous Huxley

Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism -…

— Andy Warhol

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and…

— Milan Kundera