Friedensreich Hundertwasser Quotes

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

I think that our comfort is in our history.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

We can not escape history.

History takes time... History makes memory.

Without history one remains always a child.

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

I always had my roots in the past.

It's good to know where you've come from.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

Without a past you can't have a future.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.