Art Quote by John Ruskin

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art.…

— John Ruskin

The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go…

— Colin Firth

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national…

— Joseph Howe

Books create eras and nations, just as eras and nations create books.

— Anonymous

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write

— Michel De Montaigne

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

— Abba Eban

I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind…

— Eddie Trunk

“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.”

— Jarod Kintz

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed;

— David Gelernter