“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.”

“A true artist doesn't change with the times. A true artist is already way ahead of the times. ”

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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”

George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist

“When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

“The first and foremost critic of a work of art is the artist who created it. Give him every means to illustrate it and make it known. If an artist awaits celebrity or gratefulness for his work through other people, he will have the time to die a thousand times for sheer hunger.”

Fortunato Depero (1892–1960) Italian painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer

“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.”

Mary Schmich (1953) American columnist

“Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself”

Baz Luhrmann (1962) Australian film director, screenwriter and producer

“Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

“Being an artist is being an isolated individual. But the development of the creative foundation of the encumbers the individual artists more and more with the prevailing problems. You are of your time whether you like it or not. Developing ones foundation to an artist means continually revising it. The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist — when developing his own foundation — must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.”

Asger Jorn (1914–1973) Danish artist

“He spent the whole time sitting on a log in the woodshed, sometimes starting straight ahead with the fixity of a blind man who knows that even if he turns his head in the other direction he will still not see anything”

José Saramago book The Cave