“Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future… eternal beauty.”
Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist
Toutes les beautés contiennent, comme tous les phénomènes possibles, quelque chose d'éternel et quelque chose de transitoire — d'absolu et de particulier. <br class="br">"De l'héroïsme de la vie moderne," Salon de 1846, XVIII (1846) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Salon_de_1846_%28Curiosit%C3%A9s_esth%C3%A9tiques%29#XVIII._.E2.80.94_De_l.E2.80.99h.C3.A9ro.C3.AFsme_de_la_vie_moderne
“Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future… eternal beauty.”
Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist
“No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.”
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist
Johann Gottlieb Fichte book Address to the German Nation
General Nature of New Eduction p. 45
Addresses to the German Nation (Reden an die deutsche Nation) 1808, Third Address
“Style is ephemeral – Form is eternal”
David Bomberg (1890–1957) painter
"The Bomberg Papers", An Anthology From X (Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 90.
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
As quoted in "Pope: The Internet is a 'gift from God.' But watch out for the trolls." at CNN (23 January 2014) http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/23/the-pope-takes-on-internet-trolls/ <br class="br">2010s, 2014
Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) Swiss painter and sculptor
The work had to pass by, make people dream and talk, and that would be all, the next day nothing would be left, everything would go back to the garbage bins.
Quote of Tinguely in a radio interview (1982), as cited in: 'Violand-Hobi', Heidi G. Jean Tinguely: Life and Work (NY: Prestel, 1995), p. 36 ; Talking about his Homage to New York; Cited in: John D. Powell. (2009, p. 31).
1980s