Quotes About History

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

History develops, art stands still.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.