"The seeds of the future are always planted in the past."
–– Deborah Levy (b. 1959), South African-born, British novelist, playwright, and poet.
Source: Deborah Levy. The Cost of Living: A Living Autobiography. Toronto, ON: Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2018; p. 145.
via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2022, p. 95.
"I sometimes hear about work described in terms of 'originality' or 'breakthrough,' but my personal experience is quite different. For me, music has always been about lineage. The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything."
–– Philip Glass (b. 1937), American composer and musician
Source: Austin Kleon October 5, 2018.
via: Sketchbook 30, 2018, p. 67.
"[O]ne always had to leave some of the past behind to make way for something new."
–– Natalie Jenner, Canadian writer.
Source: Natalie Jenner. Bloomsbury Girls. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2022, p.182.
via: Commonplace Book, 2022, p. 70.
"the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past."
–– T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), American-born British author
Source: T.S. Eliot. "Tradition and the Individual Talent." The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism.
via Sketchbook 17, 2011, p. 9
"... collage is all about recycling, reinterpretation and reprocessing of our collective past, present, and future."
–– James Gallagher, American collage artist, editor, publisher, and creative director
Source: Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage, Preface, unpaginated.
via Sketchbook 16, 2011, p. 125
