Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?