Music Hi there and welcome to another in the series of Retro Modernism videos. Now today what we're going to have a look at is our manifesto like any self-respecting movement. We do of course have a manifesto and this is made up of 20 guidelines, 20 principles, but also 20 philosophical thoughts, concepts if you like, which emerge from not surprisingly past and present artists and thinkers of our time. And we've put these together in a little montage and hopefully this will give you a better idea of where we are thinking wise and where we are in terms of trying to describe and set out a stall as a new chapter in our history. Obviously because this is a movement that deals not just with the techniques and the styles of the artist we talk about but very much about their inner feelings, their spiritual and metaphysical state if you like, which allows them to arrive at this fantastic fusion of past influences, which goes through their minds, through their bodies, through their souls and comes out in some fantastic works. So without further ado today what we're going to look at is the 20 sayings or ideas which come from people who we category, we call our retmosapiens. Let's get on with it. Number one, everything starts from a dot. This was said by the great Vasily Kandinsky and who could fault that. To be an artist is to believe in life. This was Henry Moore the one and only. Art must be life. It must belong to everybody. So say if Marina Abramovich. Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. Louis Carroll. It's not where you take things from, it's where you take them too. Jean-Luc Gourat. Authenticity is invaluable, originality is nonexistent, Jim Javish. Good artist's borrow, great artists's steal, Pablo Picasso. Those who do not want to imitate anything produce nothing. Salvador Dalí. Inventing is making things that are parallel in space, meet in time or vice versa so that they are present and a new fact in their conjuncture. Vincent de Di Uy l'Bro. Art is standing with one hand extending into the universe and one hand extending into the world and letting ourselves be a conduit for the passing energy. Albert Einstein. Every artist dips his brush into his own soul and paints his own nature in his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher. Art should comfortably disturb and disturb the comfortable. Banksy. All art is unstable, its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings, David Bali. The act of expressing oneself as a physical one materializes the thought as Gari Arna. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude, Friedrich Nisha. Beauty will save the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky. Amor Vincet Omnia. Michelangelo Damerizi Caravaggio. We are continuing the evolution of art, Lucha Fontana. Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? And the Warhol. That's it for now. I hope that was illuminating and gave you a little bit more of an insight into what we're thinking when we're talking about retro-modernism. And also the enormity of the world that we are describing. There are so many stories out there that we will obviously be telling in due course on this channel and on our website and on our social media platforms. So thank you very much. Do subscribe, write in, get in touch, let us know what you think. Any ideas that you have would be more than welcome. And please stay with the plot basically. Thanks very much and see you again. Bye bye. .