This is not to say that cinema should or could replace the other art forms, any more than flight is a substitute for the pleasures of walking or for the leisurely panorama of landscapes seen from a car or train window. Only when new things serve the same purpose better do they replace old things. Art, however, deals in ideas; time does not deny them, but may merely make them irrelevant. The truths of the Egyptians are no less true for failing to answer questions which they never raised. Culture is cumulative, and to it each age should make its proper contribution. Maya Deren, Cinematography, p. 72
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Culture and learning is a cumulative experience and I believe with the movement of time, human’s progression is constantly changing that ideas become irrelevant only to be replaced by new ideas. I chose this quote because I felt that this is a reoccurring theme that we have faced in this class several times. There is always and will always be something new we must be able to learn and it is never ending.