Famous quotes containing the words art and/or historians:
“Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)