What did Rachel Holmes mean by: The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day. - Rachel Holmes Historian · United Kingdom Copy
+ People don’t give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rachel Holmes, Power, Privilege, Resistance, 0 - Rachel Holmes Historian · United Kingdom
+ For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rachel Holmes, History, Individual, 0 - Rachel Holmes Historian · United Kingdom
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France