"The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it."

-- John French Sloan

#Art Quotes #Past Quotes #Years Quotes

“So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.”
“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”
“Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.”
“Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.”
“Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.”
“Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away.”

Source : Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.43, David C Cook
“I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube.”
“there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.”

Source : Martha Albrand (1966). “A door fell shut”

You may also like:

Alan Seeger
Poet
Edward Hopper
Painter
George Bellows
Painter
George Luks
Artist
John Marin
Artist
Marsden Hartley
Painter
Robert Henri
Artist
Thomas Eakins
Painter
Van Wyck Brooks
Literary critic