Art Quote by Clement Greenberg

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

— Lewis Mumford

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense.…

— Arnold Gehlen

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong…

— Michele Cassou

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as…

— David Elliott

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

— Oscar Wilde

“Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops purely on its own lines (...) So…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who…

— Rudolf Arnheim

As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete,…

— Robert Genn

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we…

— Jeanette Winterson