Art Quote by Kakuzō Okakura

“The very idea of Palaeolithic art was deeply disturbing. Was not art one of the great achievements of high civilizations?”

— James David Lewis-Williams

“There’s something with these ancient arts. They don’t last for centuries for nothing.”

— Peter M. Wayne

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not…

— Anonymous

“Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Renaissance - as…

— William Barrett

“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.”

— Douglas Wilson

“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action…

— Paul Valéry

“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”

— Mary E. Pearson

Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder &…

— William Blake