Art Quote by Robert Wilson Lynd

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories…

— Annie Leonard

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're…

— Teju Cole

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a…

— Jill Lepore

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is…

— Andre Malraux

“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

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

“Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us…

— K.P. Kollenborn

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past… The writing…

— Benedetto Croce