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If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and…

— M. C. Escher

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

— Camille Paglia

“Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an ostentatious amusement…

— Peter Sloterdijk

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

— Toni Morrison

“In truth, France. Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England had nothing to do with Athens and the history of Rome from its earliest days…

— Peter Frankopan

It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true…

— Louis Auchincloss

I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in science; and…

— Patti Smith

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system,…

— Ben Shahn

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from…

— Andre Malraux

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

— Ernst Gombrich

I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.

— Ali Smith