Air Quote by Albert Pinkham Ryder

“In this pilgrimage in search of modernity I lost my way at many points only to find myself again. I returned to the source…

— Octavio Paz

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

— Eudora Welty

The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of…

— Anton Ehrenzweig

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

“It seems, however, to be otherwise with stronger and livelier thinkers who are still eager for life. In that they side against appearance, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to…

— Jonathan Hale

Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones, ditches, mounds,…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted…

— Zhang Xiaogang

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

— Mark Rothko

Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has…

— Richard Tarnas

“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic…

— Gary Snyder

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new…

— Susan Sontag