It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
A little part of my life is built around ancient art.
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.