Author: Daniel J. Boorstin

Cites

• Pablo Picasso (1)
  • IN: The Creators: A History of the Imagination (1992) Non-Fiction, History, American
    EPIGRAPH: "To me there is no past or future in art. / If a work of art cannot live always in / the present it must not be considered at / all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, / of the great painters who lived in other times, / is not an art of the past, perhaps it is more / alive today than it ever was."
    FROM: NULL, (1923), NULL, Spain
• André Malraux (1)
  • IN: The Creators: A History of the Imagination (1992) Non-Fiction, History, American
    EPIGRAPH: "In art, we are the first to be heirs of all the earth... Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose."
    FROM: NULL, (1950), NULL, France
• Francis Bacon (1)
  • IN: The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to know his World and Himself (1983) Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificient buildings, of shipping and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of these glories, but only to the glory of the inquisition of truth; for so he saith expressly, "The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out."; as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide his works, to the end to have them found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honour than to be God's play-fellows in that game."
    FROM: The Advancement of Learning, (1605), Book, UK