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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

A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming. — Elizabeth Kostova

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history. — Mathew Brady

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

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history. — Carlos Fuentes

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

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

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

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

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

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art. — Barbara Goldsmith

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

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private. — Russell Hoban

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. — Emma Anderson

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

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it — Bob Ross

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

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself. — Arthur Miller

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

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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

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

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality. — Hannah Arendt

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

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. — William Faulkner

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here. — Dennis Hopper

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance. — William Shakespeare

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

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.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. — Thomas B. Macaulay

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

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

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

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

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. — Horace Mann

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

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

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 forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. — Theodor W. Adorno

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

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books. — Peter M. Brant

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

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

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. — LeRoy Neiman

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

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

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

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

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... — Phyllis McGinley

... 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

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

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

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 set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history. — Judy Chicago

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

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

read the state of the art, the rest of inspiration — Art Opportunities

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

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

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts. — Tom Bissell

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

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

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more. — Terry Pratchett

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

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

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

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

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

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

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank

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 wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent. — Eva Mendes