Art history Quotes

“Is there a Swedish Modernism?”

— Cecilia Widenheim

“We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll”

— George Pratt

“read the state of the art, the rest of inspiration”

— Art Opportunities

I have a strong art-history background.

— Eli Roth

History paints the human heart.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The history of art is the history of revivals.

— Samuel Butler

Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.

— Jacquetta Hawkes

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.

— Lucy DeVito

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

— Margaret Atwood

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.

— Jesse Andrews

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

— Jeff Koons

“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.”

— Sverker Sörlin

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

— Cosima Spender

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern…

— Paul Gauguin

Men, not only in Turkish society but everywhere, have been the bosses in terms of creation. If you look at art history,…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and…

— Frida Giannini

Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but…

— Steve Ells

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn…

— Herb Ritts

“The notion of displacement destabilizes spatial hierarchies of senders and receivers, and turns the issue of historical causality into one or more…

— Charlotte Bydler

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…

— Robert Barry

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the…

— Ray Bradbury

Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant…

— David C. Driskell

I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I…

— Eric Kandel

In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special…

— Jay L. Garfield

“So what's the point of longing for a new, monumental category hidden somewhere in the non-Western discourse? On the contrary, shouldn't we…

— Ralph Ubl

While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started…

— Mary Pope Osborne

I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at…

— Mallory Ortberg

I'm keeping everything on a human level, but essentially everything in our lives has to be on a human level. Any specification…

— Lawrence Weiner

“Ironically, I believe Picasso was right. I believe we could paint a better world if we learned to see it from all…

— Hannah Gadsby

“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

“Have you thought about studying psychology, Kyle?” he asked. “I plan to get my PhD in that. To get my PhD in…

— Shelly Laurenston

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

“The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they have…

— Thomas Bernhard

“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and…

— Grant H. Kester

“The psychology of the unconscious and abstract art, two groundbreaking ideas of the early twentieth century, were actually close cousins, with a…

— Damion Searls

What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can…

— Abbas Kiarostami