History Quote by Alfredo Jaar Download Open image “Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.” — Alfredo Jaar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Religion
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Our concern with history is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
We get very few of he true images in our heads of the kind I am talking about, the kind which become more and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime. [...] Most… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I follow many tragedies around the world. At one point I [will] feel like I've accumulated an enormous amount of information, a critical mass… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's no way… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
Nowadays I see my work being used, without my permission, as if it was an attack against the Trump regime. People want to say,… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
I think I'm a journalist in one sense - I want to communicate to people about certain things that are happening around us, around… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out of a… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
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