Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade. Simon Schama Read Quote
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America’s naive faith that it had reinvented politics. Simon Schama Read Quote
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for. Simon Schama Read Quote
St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn’t. Simon Schama Read Quote
Jewish comedy doesn’t come out of nothing. Jewish music doesn’t come out of nothing… I don’t want to be part of a story where Jews are just victims or bullies – and I’m not saying that’s what the Israelis are. Simon Schama Read Quote
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation’s memory but loses a sense of what it’s like to be inside a human skin. Simon Schama Read Quote
America is truly special because it’s founded on an idea. It’s the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It’s, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words. Simon Schama Read Quote
It’s not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium. Simon Schama Read Quote
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. Simon Schama Read Quote
