Tradition Quotes

1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation... — Elie Wiesel
All tradition is merely the past. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War. — Abraham Lincoln
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world… — Stephen Jay Gould
Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow. — William J. Clinton
At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On… — James Dean
This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly… — Elizabeth Taylor
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. — Henri Matisse
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich
Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. — Calvin Trillin
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it. — Chogyam Trungpa
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those… — Paul Cezanne
A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of… — Ben Shahn
I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is… — Gustave Courbet
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. — Joyce Cary
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. — Thorstein Veblen
The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche. — Richard Hofstadter
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. — Glenn Gould
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience. — Paul Fussell
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians… — Harold Rosenberg
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. — Harold Rosenberg
Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies. — David Duchovny
The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our… — Clement Greenberg
We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in… — David Steindl-Rast

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