Art Quote by Stephen Kinzer

There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting…

— Alex Shoumatoff

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by…

— Anonymous

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative…

— Grant Heslov

History develops, art stands still.

— E. M. Forster

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

— Paul Valery

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

— Alfred de Vigny

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each…

— Christo

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

— E. M. Forster

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

— Robert Motherwell

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers