History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
C. V. WedgwoodWithout the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
C. V. Wedgwoodthe independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.
C. V. WedgwoodMy own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.
C. V. Wedgwood