“Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.” WellsCountryValuesSpeakStudyTraditionJewMythScreensEmpiresArchetype Author:Neal Gabler
“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 psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.” MayArtStatesNumbersQualityStudyDegreesConceptsTraditionInfiniteTraditionalPsychologicalMeritRemarkableWorks Of ArtGlancesNostalgicFeatsNewnessCraftsmanship Book:The Shape of Content Source: The Shape of Content
“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 but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.” ArtInspirationPastArtistIndividualResultsEducationStudyTalentTaughtArt IsTraditionDeny Author:Gustave Courbet
“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.” TryingSchoolFormArtistLosesStudyPerspectiveTraditionAncientDrawingChineseConventionsDecayBrushesTextureFruition Author:John French Sloan
“The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community.” WorldPersonsCommunitySpacePracticeStudyCuttingChangedWillingIntellectualTraditionWestIndividualistic Author:Bell Hooks
“Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars.” ThinkingWritingStillsProblemSchoolLawFightingReadingUnderstandingRaceClassPovertyStudyGroupsConditionsStudentsTheoryProjectsIntellectualTrainingStandardsConcernTraditionPrisonCriticalActivistDisabilityGraduatesAcademicScholarTopicsCampusLaw SchoolFighting On Author:Dean Spade
“To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.” PeopleMatterWould BeSpiritualCultureSpiritualityStudyCreationPossibilityShapesTraditionInstitutionsParadigmNew Possibilities Author:Matthew Fox
“The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.” Would BeLawLibertyStudyRightsKingsTraditionParliamentEnglishmenSecured Author:John Adams
“The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook.” WantHelpingStudyTraditionOutlook Author:Karen Armstrong
“What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age, a Muslim Reformation to combat not only the jihadist ideologues but also the dusty, stifling seminaries of the traditionalists, throwing open the windows to let in much-needed fresh air.... It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it.... Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.” AgeAbleMovingStudyAirModernEventsMovementNeededConceptsTraditionWindowIslamCoreToleranceReformRelatedRevelationsBroadsCombatThrowingSiblingReformationOpen MindednessFresh AirStiflingStartersModern AgeIdeologuesReform Movements Author:Salman Rushdie