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 Narrative Objects Storytelling Tell 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
