Quotes About History

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

Every old poem is sacred.

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Art is the most important way of recording history.

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.