Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects on the impermanence of art and life, encouraging resilience and continued creativity despite inevitable mortality.
Orson Welles' quote emphasizes the transient nature of human creations, suggesting that while art and achievements may endure for a time, they will eventually succumb to decay or conflict. It conveys a message of hope from the departed artists who encourage the living to persist in their creative expressions and to find value in the act of living, despite the certainty of death. The focus shifts from the finality of demise to the continuity of one's passions and contributions to the world.
Themes
ImpermanenceArtMortalityCreativityLegacy
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of creativity in education.
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