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“I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.”

Different Enough Artist Easy History Style Painting Serious Periods Pages Training Add Historical Contribution Making History

Author:Liu Dan

“Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”

Giving Reason Facts Happens Truth Poetry History Happened Objects Particular Serious Poet Poetry Is

Book:The poetics

Source: The poetics

“Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.”

History Serious Affair Snares Uninformed

Author:Dejan Stojanovic