Art Quote by Wassily Kandinsky

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

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

If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an…

— Frederick Hart

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

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied…

— Paul Klee

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to…

— Constantin Brancusi

“Art, to be fully appreciated, must be true to contemporaneous life. It is not that we should ignore the claims of posterity, but that…

— Kakuzō Okakura

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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