enduring creativity Quotes

No art should be fashionable.

That's the life, really, isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

I wake up in the morning and I still have a passion for what I do, and I'll be doing it when I'm 105, I'll be scribbling away. If it was 100 years ago I'd be sitting by the campfire, saying, "Have I got a story to tell you."

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.