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“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.”

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Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.”

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Book:Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984

Source: Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984

“To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.”

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Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he does not take these opinions for models. That man is thought best fitted to depict a period of the past, who is not in the least affected by that period. But only he who has a share in building up the future can grasp what the past has been, and only when transformed into a work of art can history arouse or even sustain instincts.”

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Author:Georg Brandes

“My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.”

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Author:Aga Khan IV

“art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.”

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Author:Susan Sontag