Art Survives Quotes

#1. Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct ...

Joel Achenbach

#2. Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

Roger Scruton

#3. You May Fall In Love with Beauty of someone but Always Remember 1 Thing that finally you have to live with the Character of that person not with beauty

Amardeep Singh

#4. Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual.

Rupert Sheldrake

#5. Sir McHotpants Von Grabby Hands

Penny Reid

#6. You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories.

Ian MacKaye

#7. Amber was busy flirting with a rookie named Dead Meat if he didn't stop flirting back. She was eleven, for heaven's sake! Of course, he may have just been humoring her. And it was a little cute. In a gross, Chester-the-molester kind of way.

Darynda Jones

#8. To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

Paul Driessen

#9. I'm trying to work out more ways to involve my children, because the way I do stuff is so anti-kid, it's really boring. It's not fun. It is to me, but not to them, because they don't even know what I'm doing.

Aphex Twin

#10. I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

Dana Plato

#11. The only sin is mediocrity.

Martha Graham

#12. Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back the the way I trusted his front.

Rick Riordan

#13. Art only survives by striking a chord in someone's heart and offering solace and reassurance.

Hannah Mary Rothschild

#14. A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. Was it an insult to be called a "woman writer"? Didn't it have a taint of, say, the "woman driver"?

Mary Norris

#16. Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self.

Richard Tuttle

#17. Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.

Charles Saatchi

#18. For Art alone is great:
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate.

Theophile Gautier

#19. I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

W.P. Kinsella

#20. I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.

Tori Amos