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“The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.”

Art Past Approach Importance Institutions Customs Recovering

Author:Raja Ravi Varma

“Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.”

Firsts Looks Two Lasts Past Law Party Fashion Fool Description Customs Novelty Clash Legislators Precedent

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.”

Seems Past Left Behinds Habit Customs Refugee Obsessive Quaint

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.”

Shows Past Effort Study Generations Authority Accomplish Manners Lasting Customs Superficial Consent Sociology Futility Lasting Change

Book:Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

Source: Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

“Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we once wore to survive the winters. It is an old custom, the handing down of things. A good knife, a well-made pipe, a heavy robe. Tradition falls prey to constant change, and creativity becomes so revered that the past is a relic, only to be admired. But in this coat, I was held to the earth, pulled to the past by its weight.”

Wells Made Earth Past Fall Easy Forget Creativity Our Lives Events Tradition Weight Constant Winter Heavy Customs Knives Clothings Coats Prey Pipe Robes Relics

Author:Craig Childs