Years ago Quote by Lillian Marek

“Such a great shift in the world in those initial centuries, so many working to move past war, to heal, that the wall ……

— Sarah J. Maas

“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“There were endless stories locked into the silent, cool mass of the Wall, so many memories of stories of so long ago, now only…

— Braam Malherbe

“Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.”

— Chesya Burke

“We are fighting not just against our contemporaries for recognition, but against centuries of great art for an audience. Each new work competes for…

— Ryan Holiday

“A wall was slowly being constructed between art and science, a wall that still stands today.”

— Laura J. Snyder

“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made up of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel,…

— Sebastian Barry

The Wall will stand for a hundred years.

— Erich Honecker

“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card at the…

— Donna Tartt

“You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed…

— John Steinbeck