Max Brooks Quotes

Art is longer than life.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

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.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

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

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Art is forever.

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.

Popular sings are the only art form that describes the temper of the times.

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why?