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Robert Hewison Quotes

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Robert Hewison
Taken, Optimism, Modernism
Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

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
Past, Yesterday, Creative
Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

Robert Hewison
Friends, Running, Failure

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
Teamwork, Country, Museums
Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

[John] 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
Order, Capacity, Observation
"The Global Search for Education: Art in Education" by C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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