“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“group of aspiring young Mormon painters who called themselves “art missionaries” arrived from Utah, many to enroll at the Académie Julian. Their… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
![“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is." [ The Title Always Comes Last ; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]” quote by David McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/03b/david-mccullough-1091_art_to-me-history-ought-to-be-a-source-of-pl_505018.jpg)
