Paul Cezanne Quotes

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

We can't be beholden to the past.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.