Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a…

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

— Francis Schaeffer

Science is our century's art.

— Horace Freeland Judson

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

— Tania Bruguera

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems…

— Al Alvarez

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of…

— Jerry Saltz

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

— Marina Abramovic

. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that…

— James A. Michener

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…

— Zygmunt Bauman

By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell…

— Tom Standage

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at…

— Hillary Clinton

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of…

— Anonymous

“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The…

— Henry Adams

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney