Art Quote by Frank Fairfield

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

— Frank Fairfield

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's…

— Zoe Leonard

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

— Brad Holland

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art…

— Edward Steichen

"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming…

— Liam Gillick

I've always been very opinionated, for lack of a better term, about art. Not to sound too arrogant, but I guess I'm a connoisseur…

— Joel McHale

“The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty…

— John Fowles

“In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.”

— Adorno, Theodor W

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single…

— Thomas Hoving