Art Quote by Alfred de Vigny

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

Art history is always changing too.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Past art is subject to change.

— T. S. Eliot

Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to…

— Dave Brubeck

History develops, art stands still.

— E. M. Forster

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is…

— Andre Malraux

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics...

— Ian Mcewan

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

— Anselm Kiefer

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

— Jerry Saltz

Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in…

— Maurizio Cattelan

I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the history in…

— Michael C. McMillen

“Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops purely on its own lines (...) So…

— Oscar Wilde