Art Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

“A lack of methodology in Upper Palaeolithic art research has led to confusion of priorities.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new…

— Kakuzō Okakura

Art is the signature of civilizations.

— Beverly Sills

“There’s something with these ancient arts. They don’t last for centuries for nothing.”

— Peter M. Wayne

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action…

— Paul Valéry

“Where we encounter the "naïve" in art, we should recognize the highest effect of Apollinian culture--which always must first overthrow an empire of Titans…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

— Erykah Badu

“And all this culture, all this art, was simply a trick. It allowed us to pretend that human beings were noble, intelligent creatures who'd…

— Gordon Reece

“The picture of change in human society that emerges from this recent research throws new light on that aspect of the Transition that has…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art”

— Lawrence Durrell

“I have studied the art of the ancients and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I no longer…

— Gustave Courbet