Timeless Artistry Quotes

For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.

When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

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

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.

As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.

I'm always about trying to fill a need with what I do in my artistry. There is definitely a need in the performing arts world for a movement to come along that seriously connects with a next generation audience while still maintaining the timeless artistic objectives present throughout the history of the American music tradition.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

I miss the days when girls would wear full long dresses and just stand onstage and sing. That's what I'm trying to bring back: that timeless element. I want to create music that people will be listening to in fifty years, you know?

If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.

The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

In the past, once a movie musical was made, it was believed that you were left with that version, good or bad, for posterity.