Abstract Quote by Oscar Wilde

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent;being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as…

— Franz Grillparzer

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the…

— George Santayana

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

— Rembrandt

“Spiritual age is determined by the acts which make the mornings and evenings of the soul, and not by the motions of the physical…

— Henry James

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years…

— Freya Stark

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if…

— Paul Gauguin

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and…

— George Santayana

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 is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

— Salvador de Madariaga