“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

— Winston S. Churchill

From a speech given at the Royal Academy of Art in 1953; quoted in Time magazine (11 May 1954).
Post-war years (1945–1955)

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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