Art Quote by Marianne von Werefkin

If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at…

— Ethan Hawke

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to…

— Harold Rosenberg

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given…

— Clifford Ross

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire…

— Edgar Degas

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

“There are, broadly speaking, three directly analogous progressions inthe history of art: in Antiquity, from the blockiness of Egyptian art to the loose, painterly…

— Klaus Berger

The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by…

— Kenneth Clark

Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art…

— Lee Radziwill

The history of art is the history of revivals.

— Samuel Butler

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

— Janet Flanner

“In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.”

— Adorno, Theodor W

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single…

— Thomas Hoving

If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.

— Yara Shahidi

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout…

— Andre Malraux