Famous quote by Theodore Bikel

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"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"

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This quote is written / told by Theodore Bikel somewhere between May 2, 1924 and today. He was a famous Actor from Austria. The author also have 42 other quotes.

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"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"

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"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers"

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

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"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century"