"If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints."

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Source : Allan Nevins (1975). “Allan Nevins on history”

Allan Nevins

#Art Quotes #Past Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.”

Source : "Profile: Satoru Iwata". www.ign.com. July 16, 2004.
“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”
“In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already”
“Most fans probably wouldn't understand that because they're not in bands, but when there's too many cooks in the kitchen it can really ruin things, it can destroy a band. So for me and Burt to approach it as just two guys it makes things a lot easier. This may sound selfish but it was less people we had to share our ideas with so there was less interference.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.”
“The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.”
“Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.”
“I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.”

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