Art Quote by Bill Viola

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If…

— Bettany Hughes

Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret about the…

— Munira Mirza

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history…

— David Rockefeller

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

— Luc Tuymans

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

— Chuck Close

Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art…

— Harold Rosenberg

Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe…

— Dan Brown

“The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they have killed it…

— Thomas Bernhard

It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

— Simone Weil

“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not…

— Anonymous