History Quote by Alexandra Horowitz

“Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns.”

— A.G. Riddle

“We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt…

— Richard Taylor

The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous…

— David Maisel

“By striving to see through the veil of our ordinary perceptions, we can come closer to understanding our profound relationship to all created things—all…

— Robert Lanza

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

— Sophie Ristelhueber

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that…

— Rene Magritte

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see…

— Walter Pater

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“History is the hidden map of who, where and how we are today.”

— Elena Lappin

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe