“Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.” LastsEasyLinesForeverPaintingPaperDrawingBagsPlasticCheaperPlastic Bags Author:Marlene Dumas
“A painting can't be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to see it. Some people just continue to work on things, forever. I don't know which is better.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantForeverPaintingFinished Author:John Slattery
“Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.” TryingActionLastsProcessActingForeverFrontsPaintingGrainComes And GoesEphemeral Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.” ThinkingKnowsMayStillsEnoughPracticeForeverAlivePaintingSingingMereHillsInstantWornLive ForeverWrensCezanne Book:This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems Source: This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems
“I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."” ShouldArtSaidIdeasRememberArtistWishForeverPaintingShould HaveIranianExhibitions Author:Farah Diba