Art Quote by Allan Nevins

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

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

— Anselm Kiefer

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

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

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a…

— Jill Lepore

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

“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

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is…

— Andre Malraux

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a…

— Peter Ackroyd

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

— Beaumont Newhall

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville