Andre Derain Quotes

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

Oh yes. And a great many of them still do.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I pass it on. That's what it's about. If somebody gives you mental jewelry and you wear it for so long, you want to give it to somebody else for them pass it on.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

I am not an originator but a transmitter.

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.