Art Quote by Johan Huizinga

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I…

— Kevin Young

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

“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

— Niall Ferguson

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

— Craig Brown

I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how…

— Kevin Chamberlin

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

— Cosima Spender

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

— Theodore Bikel