Angry Quote by Ali Banisadr

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance…

— Laura Gilpin

“Consider carefully the merest event: in the best of cases, the positive and negative elements that participate in it balance out; generally the negatives…

— Emil M. Cioran

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

— David Salle

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

— Leonard Cohen

Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you end up…

— Lawrence Weiner

We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific…

— Alain de Botton

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

— Dakin Matthews

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

— A. S. Byatt

“Nothing rose to plug the gap, to address what some called “ultimate concerns,” unless you count the arts, the arts that lacked both epistemological…

— Annie Dillard

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

— Sol LeWitt

“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps…

— Alain de Botton