Richard MacDonald Quotes

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.

I'm very much into legacies.

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

Women come up to us all the time and give us the most amazing compliments, like, 'Salt-N-Pepa was the soundtrack of my life.' They remind us that we meant so much to them. Sometimes artists don't really grasp that. But when you talk to fans, you get in touch with your legacy.

I want to create a different kind of legacy.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

I don't want to be the next hottest thing, I want longevity.

You never really own a diamond. You just get to keep it for a while before it begins a new journey with someone else.

Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can't take it with them.

At Knopf, everything is inherited.

Ask any rapper or singer what artist they are an expert on. What artist are they looking to emulate, and really, what artist is the one person they are an expert on? You see, if you want any kind of longevity, if you want any kind of legacy, you need to know what ancestral line you are from.

My legacy is so, so important to me.

We never pull down the quality of the product, and I think that pays in the long term. People come up to me and say, 'I'm still wearing a Missoni sweater from 30 years ago, and it still looks great.' So quality, specificity and passion.

The last thing I wanted in life was to be measured by what I had inherited, as opposed to what I had done.

I wanted a way to pass on all the gifts, all the instruction that I've been given.

I didn't even know I had a legacy.

My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

For me, understanding your heritage and wanting to leave a legacy was always important to me.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.