Art Quote by Johan Huizinga

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

— Jerry Saltz

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

— Anselm Kiefer

Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention,…

— Leon Golub

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

— Michele Cassou

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At that point…

— Thomas Struth

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

— Gautama Buddha

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

— Paul Auster

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

— Cornell Capa

Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories and themes…

— John Dyer Baizley