Painting/history

Famous quotes containing the words painting and/or history:

“I never wanted to live an unembellished life, and I have never done it.... Living under such a compulsion has been like painting pictures of life, and I don’t take kindly to suggestions that I might have been less egotistically employed had I become a trained nurse.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)