George Lucas Quotes

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.

History depends always upon what, for one reason or another, has survived from earlier periods, particularly upon what was written down or pictured.

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

What if Hiram Bingham had the technology to find hundreds of other archaeological sites at the same time and create entire 3-D maps of the ancient landscape accurate to within a few inches?

Sometimes, if I see a picture and I can make it a bit better, then I will, like everyone else does. I've been Photoshopped in every picture since I started modelling.

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

All history was at first oral.

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.