Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.
Ask yourself this question, will this matter a year from now?
A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
The next 10 years could be the most important in the next 10,000.
Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed.
One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph.
