Memorable Art Quotes About History

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"The historian will tell you what happened. The artist will tell you what mattered."
Unknown
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
Oscar Wilde
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
Pablo Picasso
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner
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"History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
David McCullough
"The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist."
Ananda Coomaraswamy
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Aristotle
"Art is a protest against death."
Andre Malraux
"A picture is a poem without words."
Horace
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo
"All art is but imitation of nature."
Seneca the Younger
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The historian's job is to seek the truth. The artist's is to make people realize it."
Unknown
"We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future."
William Lund
"A great artist is a great man in a great child."
Victor Hugo
"Art speaks where words are unable to explain."
Threadless
"The best prophet of the future is the past."
Lord Byron
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
Henry Moore
"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
Kurt Vonnegut
"History is the version of past events that people agree about."
Napoleon Bonaparte

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