I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“The most frequently cited artists and curators travel extensively and there is a real difference in saying whether concepts and other contributions… — Charlotte Bydler Copy Share Image
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of… — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, joined this project in the Fall of… — Cathy N. Davidson Copy Share Image
“The artists of this nation - state are, taken as one historical subject, one of 'latecomers' to the smorgasbord of the artistic… — Charlotte Bydler Copy Share Image
For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
“They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
When you study art history, you learn that there is very little that is completely new, and in many ways digital art… — Susan Kare Copy Share Image
“Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the… — Eric Scigliano Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Zoe Marie Jones, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, joined this project… — Cathy N. Davidson Copy Share Image
“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of… — Claude Calame Copy Share Image
“Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century… — Robert Nelson Copy Share Image
Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I can go to parties all the time and not see people I want to work with, but then sometimes I do,… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any… — James Dean Copy Share Image
I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
My undergraduate degree was in art history! Raising money for Chipotle was really my MBA. The money for my first restaurant came… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
“Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
“In all societies, public rhetoric involves some measure of lying, and history -- political history and art history -- is made when… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
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