Art Quote by Michael Eisner

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation…

— Don Simpson

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war,…

— Sharon E. McKay

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

— Amedeo Modigliani

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

“Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us…

— K.P. Kollenborn

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— Walter Pater

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

— Anselm Kiefer

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that…

— R.G. Collingwood

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

— Kobe Bryant

It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing…

— Arthur Lismer