Art History Quotes
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A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming.
— Elizabeth Kostova
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
— Golda Meir
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
— Honore De Balzac
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.
— William Howard Adams
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
There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.
— Thomas Hoving
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
— Jacques Chirac
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
— Honore De Balzac
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.
— Marc Almond
What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
— Felix Rohatyn
In all history, art has been the food of the poor,
— Cameron Jace
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.
— Charles Guggenheim
Art is science in the flesh.
— Jean Cocteau
I have a strong art-history background.
— Eli Roth
No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
— Emma Anderson
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.
— James Altucher
We live ruins amid ruins.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.
— Frank Fairfield
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
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history
— Christopher Wood
History is conjecture raised to the level of an art.
— Marty Rubin
I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.
— Arthur Miller
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
— Andre Suares
Discontent is the seed of ethics.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
History is as much an art as a science.
— Ernest Renan
read the state of the art, the rest of inspiration
— Art Opportunities
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
— John Edgar Wideman
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.
— Lewis Thomas
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
— Albert Einstein
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.
— Ruth Benedict
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
Everything may happen.
— Seneca The Younger
I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72.
— Theresa Sjoquist
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
— Adam Gopnik
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
— Leslie Fiedler
Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless.
— Honore De Balzac
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The past does not influence me; I influence it.
— Willem De Kooning
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
— Kristen Wiig
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
— Alfred De Vigny
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
— Tom Stoppard
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
— Charlie Chaplin
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
— Honore De Balzac
Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up.
— Theresa Sjoquist
The morality of art is in its very beauty.
— Gustave Flaubert
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
— Theodor W. Adorno
I just wanted to do something important.
— Norman Rockwell
We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll
— George Pratt
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.
— Michael Scott
... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Don't carry the world around or your history around like a burden. In fact, don't carry it around at all. One step at a time.
— Art Hochberg
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
— Chris Marker
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
— Andrew Hoberek
The brain's dense thicket of interrelationships, like those of history or art, does not yield to the reductivist's bright blade. (91)
— Thomas Lewis
Is there a Swedish Modernism?
— Cecilia Widenheim
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.
— Betty Edwards
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
— Helen Vendler
If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
— Sam Taylor-Johnson
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
— Anne Frank
You are what you read.
— Nancy Petralia
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
— Judy Chicago
History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life is a loom, weaving illusion.
— Vachel Lindsay
All our knowledge is symbolic.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
— Marilyn Monroe
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
— Derek Walcott
Art thieves steal more than beautiful objects; they steal memories and identities. They steal history.
— Robert K. Wittman
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
— Harold Rosenberg
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
History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
— Pamela Hanson
History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ...
— Phyllis McGinley
History after all is the true poetry.
— Thomas Carlyle