History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.
I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.
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