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
“I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Magical activity is a kind of dynamo supplying the mechanisms of practical life with the emotional current that drives it. Hence, magic… — Read Herbert 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
“The most frequently cited artists and curators travel extensively and there is a real difference in saying whether concepts and other contributions… — Charlotte Bydler Copy Share Image
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of… — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
Cinemascope has become synonymous with 'epic,' and absolutely if you're shooting armies and certain kinds of vast landscapes, you do want that… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
My introduction to art history was like everybody else's. You see an art history book that has works by Rembrandt and Leonardo… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's… — Ali Banisadr 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
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
To me, James Harden is like basketball's Picasso - he's an artist whose work you respect, even if you don't always understand… — Trevor Ariza Copy Share Image
In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the… — Kehinde Wiley 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
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, joined this project in the Fall of… — Cathy N. Davidson Copy Share Image
There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century… — Robert Nelson Copy Share Image
“Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
“Zoe Marie Jones, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, joined this project… — Cathy N. Davidson Copy Share Image
“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of… — Claude Calame Copy Share Image
He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities,… — Stephen Furst Copy Share Image
I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“You said you didn’t know where I came from.” Verity met his gaze. “Ann Arbor, Michigan. I’m an assistant professor of Art… — Adrienne Bell Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I've always done live art history lectures and small documentaries in the past in Australia, on Australian art and art galleries, so… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art… — Emmy Rossum 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 condition. [Art] had humor in it. It had sex in it. But it also had sorrow running through it.” quote by Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/709/eric-drooker-12664_art_as-i-developed-as-an-artist-and-studied_1859518.jpg)
![“In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the difference between one Italian sculptor to the next. You know, this - these are things that we don't necessarily assume of people in sanctified light.” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/856/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_in-our-conversations-he-michael-jackson_3203876.jpg)
![“Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no such thing as ideal subject-matter.” quote by Neville Weston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/330/neville-weston-48349_art_such-ideas-made-him-constable-a-precurso_3140056.jpg)
![“He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's this dance back and forth. We were halfway through the dance. He died.” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_he-michael-jackson-would-choose-specific_2414757.jpg)
