Art Quote by Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how…

— Kevin Chamberlin

As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.

— Anohni

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history…

— Kehinde Wiley

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

— John Irving

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

— Anselm Kiefer

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals…

— Martin Filler

Art can influence people, and indeed it should do that as well.

— Suresh Gopi

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

— Dolly Parton

Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to…

— Dave Brubeck

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

— Hisham Matar

There are certain figures in the arts who, although minor in accomplishment and equivocal in their aesthetic influence, are so completely representative of the…

— Anonymous