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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. — V.S. Naipaul

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. — Tom Wolfe

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.
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I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on. — Nick Kroll

Less is more, in prose as in architecture. — Donald Hall

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history. — Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

In all history, art has been the food of the poor, — Cameron Jace

Art is science in the flesh. — Jean Cocteau

I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business. — Thomas Hoving

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. — Cornell Capa

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life. — William Shakespeare

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. — Jeff Koons

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth. — James Altucher

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? — David Mamet

On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit. — Alex Shakar

It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity. — Sverker Sorlin

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love. — Mason Cooley

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. — Debbie Allen

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. — Jeffrey Deitch

What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history.
(In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III') — Paul Murray Kendall

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. — Marcus Aurelius

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts. — Igor Babailov

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem. — Alfred H. Barr Jr.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. — Johan Huizinga

The pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance. — Walter Shaw Sparrow

I don't suppose there has been a moment in the world's history where more people felt themselves to be artists, of when less art was produced. — Auberon Waugh

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. — Robert Rauschenberg

Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion. — Andre Suares

Love finds lazy writers
And makes example out of them
Nailing them in history — Yarro Rai

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. — Adam Gopnik

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

I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious. — Pamela Hanson

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

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art. — Orlan

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

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

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense. — Anna Sui

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature. — Albert Camus

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

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism. — K. Lee Lerner

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. — Charlie Chaplin

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner

Art takes different forms ... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history. — George Clooney

The morality of art is in its very beauty. — Gustave Flaubert

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification. — Will Self

We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history. — Susan Sontag

In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive. — Richard Marsden

The art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland.. — John Geddes