Art Quote by Eugene Ionesco

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to…

— Eugene Ionesco

Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of…

— Anton Ehrenzweig

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts…

— William Morris

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

— Oscar Wilde

We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising,…

— Asger Jorn

The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society’s image…

— Fred Polak

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

— Simone Weil

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

— David Hockney

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

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize…

— Ray Bradbury

The history of art is the history of revivals.

— Samuel Butler