25 result(s) for Art Quotes About History.
"The historian will tell you what happened. The artist will tell you what mattered."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
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"History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
"The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"Art is a protest against death."
"A picture is a poem without words."
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
"All art is but imitation of nature."
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"The historian's job is to seek the truth. The artist's is to make people realize it."
"We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future."
"A great artist is a great man in a great child."
"Art speaks where words are unable to explain."
"The best prophet of the future is the past."
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
"History is the version of past events that people agree about."
