Quote by Oswald Spengler on the Transience of Art

„One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.“

Oswald SpenglerOswald Spengler reflects on the transience of artworks and human perception of their message.
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Oswald Spengler was a German historian and philosopher, known for his theory of cultural cycles and his work ‚The Decline of the West‘.

Philosophical reflection by Oswald Spengler on the transience of art and human perception.


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Oswald Spengler quote about the transience of art

Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) was a German cultural historian and philosopher. He gained fame with his work ‚The Decline of the West,‘ in which he portrayed history as a cyclical process of rising and falling cultures. Spengler critically analyzed the cultural and political circumstances in Germany after World War I, influencing political and cultural debates during the Weimar Republic.

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"At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave." Oswald Spengler
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Quote on true meaning and time by Hans-Georg GadamerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"With the passage of time […] the true meaning within something fully unfolds. Yet this unfolding—whether in a text or a work of art—never reaches a final end; it is, in essence, an infinite process." Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Rainer Maria Rilke quote about art, language, and the mystery of creative worksCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures." Rainer Maria Rilke
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