Everybody Quote by Neil MacGregor Download Open image “Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.” — Neil MacGregor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Everybody Everybody Texts Narrative Narrative Encompasses Objects Storytelling Tell Tell Narrative Texts You
“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do, they make… — Paul Shepheard Copy Share Image
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people.… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
“It's hard to let go of objects because they are full of stories...They speak to us of the life we had, and the lives… — Lisa Tracy Copy Share Image
We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps. — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
“I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
“And the more you look at the history of Homo sapiens, it’s all about movement, right from the very first time they decided to… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Gold was the attribute of the great Inca sun god and represented his generative powers – gold was described as the ‘sweat of the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I think everybody in the future has stopped talking to each other and we all just use emojis. — Scarlett Moffatt Copy Share Image
If you're in a meeting and a man talks loudly over you, rather than copying that behaviour and normalising it, what you could do… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's… — Phil Everly Copy Share Image
My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
But I didnt feel like an invalid even for a second. I knew that I could never be the player that I was, so… — Arunima Sinha Copy Share Image
Medium is like the Instagram of the corporate world. It's the layer that we want everybody to see, but not actually how it is.… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
I think, whenever you're in the public eye, you're never going to be loved by everybody. — Amy Jackson Copy Share Image
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
