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“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
Provenance
- Source:
- From a speech given at the Royal Academy of Art in 1953; quoted in Time magazine (11 May 1954).
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8e9ae2babd46e95403c0aba7663a0cf0841407f486c0a975b81cad0d49f5cbd8
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