Historical Tradition

Famous quotes containing the words historical and/or tradition:

“In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.”
—George Grosz (1893–1959)

“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)