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.
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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
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 has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
History is written by the victors.
Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.
If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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