Aggression Quote by Leon Golub

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

— Anselm Kiefer

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

— Johan Huizinga

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we…

— Robert Nelson

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

— Roy DeCarava

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and…

— Gerald Scarfe

Obviously, something like ballet, you have music, you dance with the music and it's a very direct connection. With visual art, when there's no…

— Hilary Hahn

My idea about the role of artists is to get people to look at things in a way that's different than the way they…

— Shepard Fairey

Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of…

— Kehinde Wiley

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

— Trevor Paglen

What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed…

— Kadir Nelson

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned…

— Yoko Ono

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

— Roy H. Williams