History Quote by W. G. Sebald

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether…

— Noam Chomsky

“We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime. [...] Most…

— Robert Hughes

“Pictures and words don't hurt anyone, except for those who are afraid of history.”

— Katherine Govier

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

— Anselm Kiefer

“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”

— Anonymous

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace

“I did not understand, taking those pictures, that history must be collected while the subject exists. If not, what goes unrecorded can fill an…

— Susanna Daniel

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“What happened was this: I got an image in my head that never got out. We see a great many things and can remember…

— Robert Penn Warren