Daily Inspiration Quote by Antonio Perez

Spoken like a man trying to slow the future down by giving it a long, respectable leash. Perez is defending an incumbent medium not by denying change, but by diluting it: yes, new methods will arrive, but film (read: the established tool, the trusted apparatus, the state-sanctioned way of recording and reproducing reality) will remain superior for "many applications" and for "a very long time". The phrasing is bureaucratic on purpose. It avoids romance and replaces it with portfolio management.

As a 16th-century statesman, Perez would have lived in a world where information was already a political technology. The printing press had turned texts into instruments of persuasion, heresy control, and imperial administration. In that context, the line reads less like a prediction about aesthetics and more like a policy posture: continuity is stability; stability is power. "Applications" implies uses that matter to institutions - archiving, authentication, standardization, legal record. A government doesn't just want beauty; it wants reliability it can audit.

The subtext is defensive confidence. "Better" is asserted without criteria, which is the tell. When a speaker names no metric, they're often appealing to the audience's existing comfort: trust what you already know. "For a very long time" is the soft threat embedded in reassurance, a way of telling innovators that the gatekeepers will outlast their hype cycle.

Even with the anachronism of "film" attached to a Renaissance figure, the rhetorical move is timeless: when regimes confront disruptive media, they grant it a future while reserving the present.