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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid…
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There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture,…
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But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of…
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Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions…
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To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at…
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By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student…
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Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time…
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It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it…
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The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
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There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations…
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This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of…
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I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could…
— Cindy Sherman
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New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
— Sol LeWitt
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Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
— Eli Broad
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It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art…
— Donald Judd
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,…
— James Keller
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I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the…
— Donald Fagen
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society,
— Ai Weiwei
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The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality…
— Paddy Johnson
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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
— Tom Stoppard
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Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why…
— Charles Saatchi
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I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum,…
— John Green
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I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.
— Bruno Tonioli
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