"To admire an old picture is to pour our sensibility into a funeral urn instead of casting it forward with violent spurts of creation and action. Do you want to waste the best part of your strength in a useless admiration of the past, from which you will emerge exhausted, diminished, trampled on?"
-FT Marinetti 1909, Futurist Manifesto
only a part of me agrees with this (if I agreed fully I wouldn't have admired and posted a quote from a century ago); I do think that if you are a creative individual or collective the best way to use influences is to use them as the stepping stones to what comes next. Besides, history is interesting and worth knowing; it can help you win trivia contests at bars.
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