Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. — Adam Gopnik 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
“The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.” — Siri Hustvedt 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
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Photography theory is most often situated between art history, film theory, and communication studies” — David Bate Copy Share Image
“Zoe Marie Jones, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, joined” — Cathy N. Davidson Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want -… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
I was an art history major and I really love art. I wanted to give them artist names. 'The Ninja Turtles' happen… — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art… — Odd Nerdrum 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
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 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
“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
“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
“Whenever there was an opening for a new show, she would invite him; there would be champagne and hors d’oeuvres, women in… — Shari Lapena 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 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
“The real reason that students and increasingly teachers of art history are ready to jettison the past, however, is that the refusal… — Christopher S. Wood 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
“After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.” — Charles Chaplin Copy Share Image
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
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
For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you. — David Salle Copy Share Image
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses? — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. — Charlie Chaplin 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 operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really…” quote by Robert Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/robert-barry-3413_art_i-mean-part-of-the-justification-for-art_3173043.jpg)
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