Quotes About History

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material.

It's always nice to work with someone you have a history with. It just makes it easier to click back into that dynamic and have a lot of fun.

I try to put my own history in my work.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.