History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
“I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.”
“In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.”