Contemporary Quote by Jeanette Winterson

The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.

— Norman Davies

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

— Peter Brodie

Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.

— Peter Marino

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

— Igor Sikorsky

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

— Charles Baudelaire

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

— Ray Kurzweil

I definitely don't aspire to writing that's 'timeless,' whatever that means.

— Sally Rooney

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

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

— Walter Smith

One of the things about working over decades is the cumulative and the durational effect of work. That the updating process of a work…

— Tom Burr

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write,…

— Graham Swift

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of…

— Robert Longo