This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I had to read up on the Freemasons, about secret societies, and dip my toe into art history. — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
My dad is white, he's an art history teacher, he's very traditional. — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has… — Gideon Glick Copy Share Image
Studying art history is actually one of the few ways of getting a good job in the arts sector. It's hard to… — Munira Mirza 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
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone.… — John Ruskin 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
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
In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and… — Robert Anasi Copy Share Image
When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene… — Werner Herzog 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
PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD:… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second… — Alyson Richman 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'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in… — Vera Wang 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
“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
Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things… — Agathe Snow Copy Share Image
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I… — Cornelia Parker 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
I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a… — Camille Paglia 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
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