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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
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
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
I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.
— Arthur Miller
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
The art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland..
— John Geddes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
