Art Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they…

— Antoni Tapies

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

— Alfred de Vigny

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and…

— Werner Herzog

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of…

— Arthur Wesley Dow

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history…

— Kathryn Lasky

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the…

— David Maisel

I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and they were also…

— Aleksandra Mir

Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea…

— Henry McNeal Turner

We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted…

— Ellen Dissanayake

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

— Stephen King

I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists.

— Jim Drain

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being…

— Philippe Halsman