Art History Quotes
53 Art History quotes by 48 unique authors
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent…
— Drew Barrymore
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The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history
— Christopher Wood
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The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,…
— Camille Paglia
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When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just…
— Jennie Garth
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Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad…
— Max Ernst
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I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like…
— George Hickenlooper
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I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of…
— Herb Ritts
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There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate…
— Robert Anasi
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting…
— Chuck Close
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I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history
— Judy Chicago
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I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.
— Eva Mendes
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History paints the human heart.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for…
— Steve Vai
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A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was…
— Frida Giannini
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History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
— LeRoy Neiman
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In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did…
— Denise Mina
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I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff…
— Stephen Furst
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The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
— Margaret Atwood
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Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history…
— Peter M. Brant
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I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU…
— Gideon Glick
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I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to…
— Gideon Glick
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At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On…
— James Dean
Who Wrote These Art History Quotes
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