#historian

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