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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
— Honore De Balzac
Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up.
— Theresa Sjoquist
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
