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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
— V.S. Naipaul
Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011 — Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox
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
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.
— James Altucher
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
It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.
— Sverker Sorlin
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
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
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
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
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
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
