French painter Henri Matisse was truly a modern master, and his quote below can be approached from a few different angles.
"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."
-Henri Matisse (1869 -1954)
If an artist paints his politics then the work can lose it's impact in 10 or 20 years. But some historical and mythological art works remain as symbolic elements of culture even thousands of years after their creation. I think though that Matisse meant the more of one's self you can put into your work; the more emotional response, the greater and more timeless the work is. After all we experience everything subjectively, no painting is truly objective.
The Joy of Life, 1905-06, Henri Matisse.
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