Quotes About Legacy

Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse!

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain

Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities... Each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives.

Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.

I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.

I'm still here. I have to go on. I have to give something back, to make my time here worth something. If not, the time I've been given here would have been totally wasted. And I don't think we have a right to do that.

This was the way it was meant to be, when parents slipped gently away, and the next generations moved on.

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Kezia had the satiny delicacy of her mother and the sheer strength of her father.

he had stayed, he and his children would be long dead

Destruction and humiliation didn't matter. Only memory and integrity did. Was the hour I was living through right now different from the hour they were living through then? Did it matter? From what hour does one recite the evening Sh'ma?

the entire appeal of Anne Frank to the wider world—as opposed to those who knew and loved her—lay in her lack of a future.

Different patterns of institutions today are deeply rooted in the past because once society gets organized in a particular way, this tends to persist.

albeit of a particularly vicious and inefficient type. Countries become failed states not because of their geography or their culture, but because of the legacy of extractive institutions

in which the Soviets did manage to sustain some innovation was through enormous efforts in military and aerospace technology. As a result they managed to put the first dog, Leika, and the first man, Yuri Gagarin, in space. They also left the world the AK-47 as one of their legacies.

Even in death, may you be triumphant.

When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.