A J P Taylor - Best Quotes

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Author: A J P Taylor

In my opinion most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer – the wealth prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment – and nothing more corrupting.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.