Copies Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

— Demetri Martin

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

— David Wojnarowicz

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

— Anselm Kiefer

The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history.…

— Chris Killip

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

— Johan Huizinga

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.

— Larry Towell

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to…

— Jasper Fforde

I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and their own…

— Gregory Crewdson

That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course…

— Eugene Richards

As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight of the…

— Stephanie Coontz