After Matisse showed Picasso African art for the first time,it changed the history of modern art.
History Quotes
Carlyle leads by count, with Yuval Noah Harari, Will Durant and Isaac Asimov close behind. The sourced picks include Karl Popper’s claim in The Open Society (1945) that there is no history of mankind, only many histories of aspects of human life, and Oscar Wilde’s line from 1891 that anybody can make history but only a great man can write it.
The Churchill line “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” is flagged as misattributed. What the notes give is his House of Commons speech of 23 January 1948, in which he proposed to leave the past to history, especially as he intended to write that history. A line on Anglo-Irish history credited to Shaw is flagged too, and the notes record the more common, punchier version of it.
I would say that my history growing up has made me care about social and environmental justice.
We are one because there is a history and trajectory to every form of our multifarious realities.
Our histories, our novels, our poems, our plays—they are all in this one book.
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.