Art History Quotes
Art History Quote of the day
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.
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.
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.
In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.
I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on.
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.
The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.
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.
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.
History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.
This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put a lot of boys in a room looking at art history.
Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.
I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.
I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things and learn about art history and learn about people that came before me.
As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Leonard Da Vinci
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.
