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#historian

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I'm a historian in my own mind.


Quentin Tarantino


#i #mind #my own #own

Visiting the past is something like visiting a foreign country: they do some things the same and some things differently, but above all else, they make us more aware of what we call 'home.


John Arnold


#dangerous-games #home

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.


Chuck Close


#art #artists #certainly #does #find

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.


Barbara Tuchman


#food #historian #libraries #muse #shelter

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.


Peter Conrad


#circumstance #historian #inevitability #innocuous #job

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.


Penelope Lively


#been #century #change #dictated #historian

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.


Penelope Lively


#archaeology #aspect #get #historian #i

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.


Konrad Lorenz


#determined #did #evolution #face #fact

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.


Antoine Rivarol


#passions #reason

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.


David Rockefeller


#appreciation #art #art history #aspects #historians






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