Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
History is written by the winners. My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
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