James Joll quotes

“The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.”
-- James Joll

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“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”
-- James Joll

Source : James Joll (1960). “Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays”

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“The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.”
-- James Joll

Source : James Joll (1978). “Antonio Gramsci”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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“I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.”

Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.

“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”

“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”

“The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.”

“History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.”

Source : A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge

“It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.”

“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”

“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

“Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“Every generation tailors history to its taste.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon