Arthur Baer Quotes

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. I think you'll find a lot of actors will be interested in history because it sparks your imagination so much. When you enter a period of history, your imagination just goes wild in creating the world, which is really what acting is.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.

Writing history takes a great deal of imagination. I don’t mean making things up, but you have to be able to transport yourself to another time.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals

The arts are what humanize science and history.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.

Art is science in the flesh.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

History is as much an art as a science.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

History after all is the true poetry.

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.