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Tarot is a practice rich with history and cultural knowledge. It is a science of the mind.
— Benebell Wen
My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
— Mathew Brady
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
— Jeff Koons
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
— Honore De Balzac
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
— Auguste Rodin
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.
— Charles Burnett
For history is made with tools, not with ideas; and everything is changed by economic conditions - art, philosophy, love, virtue - truth itself!
— Joseph Conrad
What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
— Felix Rohatyn
Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.
— Carlton J. H. Hayes
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
— Cornell Capa
People regard art too highly, and history not enough
— John Irving
And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.
— Russell Hoban
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.
— James Altucher
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.
— Robert Payne
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
— William Morris
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
— Peter M. Brant
It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.
— Sverker Sorlin
In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive.
— Richard Marsden
History is scholarship. It is also art, and it is literature.
— Stephen J. Pyne
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.
— Neville Weston
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.
— Johan Huizinga
You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.
— Francine Pascal
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
— Susan Vreeland
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.
— Sean Scully
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
— Frances Mayes
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
— Pamela Hanson
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
— Helen Vendler
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
— Derek Walcott
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
— Marilyn Monroe
Art thieves steal more than beautiful objects; they steal memories and identities. They steal history.
— Robert K. Wittman
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.
— Ruth Benedict
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
— Albert Einstein
We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll
— George Pratt
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
— Charlie Chaplin
Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless.
— Honore De Balzac
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
— Tom Bissell
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.
— Debbie Allen
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
— Ada Louise Huxtable