“The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.” ArtCareersGoneSubjectsPaintingHonorPhotographyTraditionAimRemainsEverydayPortraitsCordelia Book:On photography Source: On photography
“[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.” ThinkingSelfCountrySubjectsEuropeTraditionComplexesWesternDeeperTreatedRevelationsPopular MusicSelf RevelationWestern MusicCountry WesternCountry Western Music Author:Leonard Cohen
“Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.” JesusDifficultChristCommunityTeacherImpossibleSubjectsJesus ChristTraditionSimplicityOutstandingTraitor Book:Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries Source: Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries
“I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayNeedsWellsIndividualKnow HowCuttingSubjectsTraditionAskingAssumptionIslamicSecularAsking Questions Author:Talal Asad
“Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.” IfsArtHouseSubjectsLike YouShapesTraditionLettersNotionFoolishDesertIslandsPrecise Author:Stanley Morison
“The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings. At issue was the fundamental question of whether men's rights were God-given or whether these rights were to be dispensed by governments to their subjects. This document proclaimed that all men have certain inalienable rights. In other words, these rights came from God.” MenLongGodGovernmentPoliticalCertainGivenMoralIssuesRightsSubjectsDivineKingsTraditionIndependenceFundamentalsHuman RightsRebellionJustificationDocumentsDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceProclaimingInalienable RightsDivine RightFavor Of GodDivine Right Of Kings Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.” HumansArtAgeFormSubjectsTraditionTraditionalLandscapeAbstractHuman FormExpressionismCommercial ArtAbstract Expressionism Author:Andy Warhol