Paul Virilio Quotes

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

Art without life is a poor affair.

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Art is eternal, but life is short.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It's like a sculpture that you can interpret differently every time you look at it.