Ovid Quotes

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

It is for all these buildings, therefore, of all times and styles, that we plead, and call upon those who have to deal with them to put Protection in the place of Restoration, to stave off decay by daily care, to prop a perilous wall or mend a leaky roof by such means as are obviously meant for support or covering, and show no pretence of other art, and otherwise to resist all tampering with either the fabric or ornament of the building as it stands; if it has become inconvenient for its present use, to raise another building rather than alter or enlarge the old one; in fine to treat our ancient buildings as monuments of a bygone art, created by bygone manners, that modern art cannot meddle with without destroying.

Reform that you may preserve.

Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.

If it ain't broke, don't break it.

Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress.

I tell people if it aint broke don't fix it.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

The way is in training.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.