Art Quotes by David McCullough

9 Art quotes by David McCullough

David McCullough’s nine quotes on art weave his narrative skill into a concise exploration of how visual culture shapes our collective memory.

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The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

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“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an…

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One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to…

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I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,…

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“In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic.…

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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an…

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I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,…

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History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of…

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“group of aspiring young Mormon painters who called themselves “art missionaries” arrived from Utah, many to enroll at the Académie Julian. Their…

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“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading…

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Nobody ever lived in the past.

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“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that…

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“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under…

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“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is…

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Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of…

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“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,”

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“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We”

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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal…

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My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it…

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“Seen under the microscope, Stegomyia is a creature of striking beauty. Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a…

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