Quotes About Tradition

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Art is the questioning of culture

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.