Alive Quote by John Kricfalusi

All the time I see things that remind me very much of the 1930s.

— Mikis Theodorakis

Everything in that era of the 1930s was built to last - cars, buildings, weapons. There was so much passion in everything that was…

— Finn Cole

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space…

— Anne Roiphe

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write…

— Tove Jansson

“I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds…

— Sara Sheridan

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

— Christian Lacroix

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

— Robert Rauschenberg

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

— Morton Feldman

“They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into…

— Hume Nisbet

I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they…

— Joe Perry

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately…

— Pope Benedict XVI

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir