Behinds Quote by Vhils

“Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns.”

— A.G. Riddle

I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.

— Shimon Attie

If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

— Leonardo Drew

“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything…

— George Orwell

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

“That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it is…

— Victor Hugo

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to…

— Jasper Fforde

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

“History is not a map to be read, nor a path to be followed. It is a landscape of contours and textures, of colours…

— Tom Lloyd

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

— Peter Clewes