Great Quote by Norman Davies

Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to…

— Dave Brubeck

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

— Kristen Wiig

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

— Susan Sontag

History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“History isn’t just something that ought to be taught, read, or encouraged only because it will make us better citizens. It will make us…

— David McCullough

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to…

— Trevor Paglen

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

— John Irving

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

— Leo Tolstoy

I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.

— Charlotte Cotton

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to…

— Maya Angelou

“Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man…

— Anonymous

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