Art Quote by Don Simpson

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make…

— Michael Eisner

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

— Kobe Bryant

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“What history can do is show that people have to take responsibility for what they activate out of their tradition. It’s not just a…

— Karen L. King

“Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us…

— K.P. Kollenborn

“History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something.”

— Timothy Snyder

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

— Twyla Tharp

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

— Amedeo Modigliani

“Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war,…

— Sharon E. McKay

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

— Anselm Kiefer

“The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.”

— Truman Capote