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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine. — Yann Martel

Tarot is a practice rich with history and cultural knowledge. It is a science of the mind. — Benebell Wen

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. — Golda Meir

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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore De Balzac

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

Art history is a global version of that old children's game Chinese whispers. — Grayson Perry

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. — William Howard Adams

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

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. — Jacques Chirac

Art is far feebler than necessity. — Aeschylus

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances. — Honore De Balzac

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

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

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines. — James Rosenquist

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. — Victor Hugo

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions. — Susan Sontag

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

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing. — Barry McGee

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks. — Nathan Sawaya

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

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

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

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. — Leslie Fiedler

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. — Jean-Francois Chevrier

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death. — Plato

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience? — Will Durant

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

History is not a science, it's an art. — Ursula K. Le Guin

History is scholarship. It is also art, and it is literature. — Stephen J. Pyne

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art. — Don Spencer

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

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. — Baron De Montesquieu

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

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. — Ezra Pound

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

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. — Johann Gustav Droysen

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

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

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

The history of art is the history of revivals. — Samuel Butler

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

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money. — Don Simpson

God is a geometrician. — Plato

The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men. — Siri Hustvedt

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

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.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art. — Andrew Hoberek

All our knowledge is symbolic. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. — Derek Walcott

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

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

Is there a Swedish Modernism? — Cecilia Widenheim

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. — Epicurus

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. — Chris Marker

Life is a loom, weaving illusion. — Vachel Lindsay

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. — Jean Piaget

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. — Michael Scott

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

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

History is as much an art as a science. — Ernest Renan

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

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

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. — Julian Barnes

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

If the art is concealed, it succeeds. — Ovid

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

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

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself. — Kenneth Clark

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

Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless. — Honore De Balzac

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you. — David Salle

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. — Honore De Balzac

Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up. — Theresa Sjoquist

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

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

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. — Lewis Thomas

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