Historian Quote by David Burnett Download Open image “I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.” — David Burnett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History Recorders Visuals
I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it. — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different. — David Burnett Copy Share Image
Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you're crazy enough it might be for you. — David Burnett Copy Share Image
Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And… — David Burnett Copy Share Image
The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the… — David Burnett Copy Share Image
I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are. — David Burnett Copy Share Image
When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic. — David Burnett Copy Share Image
The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of… — David Burnett Copy Share Image
War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the… — David Burnett Copy Share Image
It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures… — David Burnett Copy Share Image
I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants. — David Burnett 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
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
