Art Quote by Anselm Kiefer

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

— Hisham Matar

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

— Roy DeCarava

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

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins

Art history is always changing too.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical.…

— Willem de Kooning

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

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

— Jerry Saltz

Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention,…

— Leon Golub

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

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to…

— Harold Rosenberg

Past art is subject to change.

— T. S. Eliot