Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Action speaks louder than word but if someone judged you by your tattoos that means they are STUPID not to understand art and missed the meaning of "for art sakes

Love

action speaks louder than word but if someone judged you by your picture that means they are STUPID not to understand art and missed the meaning of "for art sakes

Life

In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has not promoted equality of condition. The Crusades and the English wars decimated the nobles and divided their possessions: the muni...

Democracy in America

The greater part of the world has, properly speaking, no history, because the despotism of Custom is complete. This is the case over the whole East. Custom is there, in all things, the final appeal; justice and right mean conformity to custom; the ar...

On Liberty

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our abi...

War Talk

And after the briefest flowering of understanding, my own generation had grown complacent. At some level, we must have started taking it for granted that the way the universe worked was now obvious to any child ... even though it went against everyth...

Greg Egan

See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes, experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an order to art. An explanation. Humans are odd creatures in that way. Always searching for a formula. Yes, a formula to ...

The Unsung Love Story

[Studying a Miró painting] Raymond Deagan: So, what's your opinion on modern art? Cathy Whitaker: It's hard to put into words, really. I just know what I care for and what I don't. Like this... I don't know how to pronounce it... Mira? Raymond Deaga...

Far from Heaven

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

Kapil Dev

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Hagen

In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace. In life there is no greater gift than peace, except love. May you always have love.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled

They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

That the regime was willing to hit itts chief political constituency in the pocket was a clear sign of desperation.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." "Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?" "How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

A Feast for Crows

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

Famous Drownings in Literary History: Essays on 21st-Century Jewishness