I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions. — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.” — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood Copy Share Image
“…what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things… — Agathe Snow Copy Share Image
As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my… — Gideon Glick Copy Share Image
I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-'90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale,… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
“I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being… — Elizabeth Catlett Copy Share Image
“..if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
“The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they have… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“The psychology of the unconscious and abstract art, two groundbreaking ideas of the early twentieth century, were actually close cousins, with a… — Damion Searls Copy Share Image
What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“There was something written in pencil in the bottom corner, smudged and faded. I leaned in until my nose was almost pressed… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics. — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions. — Lucy DeVito Copy Share Image
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
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