Top 1200 History And Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows.

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics position and raise the question, "What is an art object?" As soon as you fall into that trap, an artist is going to come along and say, "That isn't art - it's something else." That's a hopeless gig.

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself.

When it comes to art, buy with your eyes, not your ears. I tried very hard not to 'decorate' with art. Art should be reflective of your personality and what's going on in your head-not reflective of the colors of a sofa.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.

Exposing yourself to many kinds of art can only lead to amazing things. It helps you learn about your own art, your own taste, what kind of art you want to create for yourself.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.

I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.

In Afghanistan, we have had a history of very strong women, and we need to reclaim that history and talk about it.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history, and loved our most treasured values of freedom, democracy, justice.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.