Robert Hewison Quotes

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
Robert Hewison

Change, Today, Past

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
Robert Hewison

Education, Truth, Death

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Robert Hewison

Optimism, Taken, Modernism

Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.
Robert Hewison

Power, Truth, Human

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.
Robert Hewison

Education, Power, Art

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Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 2, 1943

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