Accounts Quote by Andre Malraux

If we talk about art in general... all the works of art, each one of them could reflect a moment in the history of…

— Eduardo Risso

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

The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that…

— Mary Beard

“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

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

— Anselm Kiefer

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 history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

— Robert Smithson

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

— Ezra Pound

“Because each work of art originates in the mind and feelings of a human being, it reaches its destination in the mind and feelings…

— George Heard Hamilton

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

— Lewis Mumford

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over…

— Andre Malraux