1989 in Australia - Arts and Literature

Famous quotes containing the words arts and, arts and/or literature:

“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)