Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity.

It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you.

The one amazing thing about 'Jack' is that I did it in 2001, you know, and it still survived. There's something about it that's connected with people.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.

You've got to remind yourself all the time that you're being measured against the fashions of the day, and if your work truly has any kind of staying power, well, people will be talking about it in 20, 30 years.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

I don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what timeless even means? Are the things that we consider timeless now going to, in fact, be considered timeless in 300 years? Probably not.

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors.