Art Quote by David Rockefeller

Past art is subject to change.

— T. S. Eliot

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago...

— Thomas Hoving

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today…

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become…

— Susan Sontag

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a…

— Hans Rookmaaker

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

— Thomas Hoving

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

— Hans Hofmann

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in…

— Immortal Technique

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

— Lewis Mumford

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

— Wendy Beckett

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

— Egon Schiele

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

— Mason Cooley