Age Quote by Edgard Varese

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which…

— Carl Jung

“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

“The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of to-day is that which really belongs to…

— Kakuzō Okakura

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry…

— Friedrich Schiller

The job of art is to turn time into things.

— Robert Genn

“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of…

— Jeanette Winterson

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

— Gary Holland

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period…

— Wassily Kandinsky

It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to…

— Stephanie Mills

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

— Barbra Streisand

“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world…

— Vivienne Westwood