Art Quote by Howard Hodgkin

I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the history in…

— Michael C. McMillen

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

— Kehinde Wiley

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

— Glenn Ligon

My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there was always…

— Roselee Goldberg

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

— Cornelia Parker

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

— James Whistler

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're…

— Teju Cole

“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes,…

— James Ferguson

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please…

— Emma Donoghue

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is…

— Andre Malraux

The history of art is the history of revivals.

— Samuel Butler