Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.

Secret Rendezvous

The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.

French

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Historians In The Middle Ages

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

The Realm of the Nebulae

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston Churchill

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Karl Jaspers

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Diane Paulus

The first thing I encountered on entering the museum was the earliest steam engine built in England. As I walked on, marveling at each successive mechanical wonder, I realized that I was witnessing the history of machinery, as if on parade, from its ...

My Art, My Life

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that ou...

Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The innumerable forms that wander in nothingness start into being at thy beck. The dead live again. Thou recallest them to their ...

The Prophetic Pictures

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

The Love Mindset

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Benjamin Disraeli

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

James Surowiecki

History repeats itself. Someone says this. History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters. history is the little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of, I know...

Crush

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Dave Foley

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

Seamus Heaney

History is about winners, not about losers. History is about assessing distortions, not copying out truths. History has much to say about the way the powerful handle power, for power engenders records. History is about evidence, and evidence flagrant...

An Intelligent Person's Guide to History

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Richard Flanagan

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan