Antiquity Quote by David Sylvester

Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its…

— Antoni Tapies

“Throughout the Middle Ages, art and architecture had a spiritual mission: to direct man’s attention toward God. Churches soared in that direction, and sculpture…

— Jesse Bryant Wilder

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

— Jerry Saltz

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

— Nan Goldin

“then we would enter what he called his “study,” a room whose walls were hung with prints which showed, against a dark background, a…

— Marcel Proust

Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false…

— Horace Walpole

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.

— Barbara Kruger

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a…

— Hans Rookmaaker

“For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no…

— Kai Meyer

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context…

— Arne Glimcher

Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.

— Malick Sidibe

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

— Rebecca Miller