Creative History Quotes

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

If you're entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history. You have to be obsessively dedicated. You have to be relentless about making it happen. It doesn't take a bank. It takes passion, love, timing, and luck.

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.