In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of… — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the… — Orlan Copy Share Image
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats. — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a… — Arnold Gehlen Copy Share Image
I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions… — Gamal El-Ghitani Copy Share Image
“Today they are teaching the subject of art as a frill in school, partly due to intellectual preciousness that has crept into… — Theresa Sjoquist Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in… — Marianne von Werefkin Copy Share Image
I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
There's a history of artists being taken advantage of, and artists have to keep criticizing and keep skepticism at a high level.… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
I had mentors, growing up in gay life - older gay men who told me about our history and the history of… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art.… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '70s and '80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
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