Ancient art Quote by Peter M. Wayne

“Art is not eternal.”

— Tom Wolfe

“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

“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.”

— Roberta Pearce

“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

“Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Oh my God, but art is long / and our life is fleeting.”

— Anonymous

“remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by time.”

— Sarah J. Maas

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

— James David Lewis-Williams

“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“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

“Art, and sadness, which last forever.”

— Sara Baume

“Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have…

— Kasimir Malevich