James Joll famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.
A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
Every generation tailors history to its taste.

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