Original artwork, not a still
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker sees art as needing both inheritance and invention. Cut off from tradition, it wanders aimlessly like sheep with no one guiding them; refusing anything new, it becomes lifeless. Each half of the pairing is treated as essential, and neither alone is enough to keep art alive.
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