At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.