Quotes About Tradition

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

The arts are the signature of a nation.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

Learn not only the rules of art, but 'when' and 'how' to break them.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.