Barry Lam Quotes

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Art is longer than life.

A record is a message, timeless.

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.

I want my shows to be very classic and timeless.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

It may not be art, but it is history.

History is not was. It is.

Displacement by technology has probably occurred since the invention of the shovel.

Things written, remain.

I don't think it's an unnatural thing at all for my collaborations or projects to be seen as art but entertainment at the same time.

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.

If you don't put out material that's going to last, you're not going to last.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed.

I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!