History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
History develops, art stands still.
The history of art is the history of revivals.