History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. — Johann Gustav Droysen Copy Share Image
“Photography theory is most often situated between art history, film theory, and communication studies” — David Bate Copy Share Image
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions. — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
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
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood 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
“…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
This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human… — Eric Drooker 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
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
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 don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's… — Ron Parker Copy Share Image
“To discover the history of women and art is in part to account for the way art history is written. To expose… — Norma Broude Copy Share Image
Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you… — Lawrence Weiner 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
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
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
“..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
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
If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Have you thought about studying psychology, Kyle?” he asked. “I plan to get my PhD in that. To get my PhD in… — Shelly Laurenston Copy Share Image
“Behren's work resists easy classification. It is part expedition journal, part museum installation, part allegorical theatre. At the centre of the evolving… — Christina Jansen Copy Share Image
“Ironically, I believe Picasso was right. I believe we could paint a better world if we learned to see it from all… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
“In 1969, both John and I began job hunting. I had finished my second master’s degree and started sending out resumes. I… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The object [Duchamp's Fountain] was rejected , giving Duchamp the opportunity of issuing a statement, which he published in a review, The… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
“...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare… — Regina O'Melveny 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
“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 history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
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