Art Quote by William Cowper

Blest be the art that can immortalize.

— William Cowper

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops purely on its own lines (...) So…

— Oscar Wilde

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

— Lewis Mumford

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over…

— Andre Malraux

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

— Lewis Mumford

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 act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with other human beings.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

— Oscar Wilde

“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

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

— Thomas Nashe