Art Quote by Max Ernst

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is…

— Andre Malraux

I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the history in…

— Michael C. McMillen

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

— Hisham Matar

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

— John Irving

If we talk about art in general... all the works of art, each one of them could reflect a moment in the history of…

— Eduardo Risso

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

— Kehinde Wiley

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

— Robert Genn

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

— Dee Rees

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

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

— Roy DeCarava