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Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. -- Robert Smithson
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. -- LeRoy Neiman
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history. -- Thomas P. Campbell
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. -- David Rockefeller
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. -- Herb Ritts
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. -- Chuck Close
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities. -- Ad Reinhardt
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class. -- Drew Barrymore
An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long. -- Robert Longo
This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts. -- Gerald R. Ford
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts. -- Igor Babailov
Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. -- Steve Vai
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. -- George Hickenlooper
I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine. -- Gideon Glick
I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things and learn about art history and learn about people that came before me. -- Agathe Snow
When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands. -- Jennie Garth
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts. -- John Ruskin
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times. -- Stephen Furst
Men, not only in Turkish society but everywhere, have been the bosses in terms of creation. If you look at art history, women were the objects. The fact that it's not been made by women means that the subjects are not women. -- Deniz Gamze Erguven
Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness. -- Max Ernst
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford) -- Richard M. Nixon
I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life. -- Scott Simon
I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU in Art History. I initially gravitated towards singing. Acting sort of sprang out of that as a means to participate in musicals. -- Gideon Glick
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images. -- Camille Paglia
I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created? -- Alyson Richman
PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something. -- Gene Roddenberry
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. -- Mia Wasikowska
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history. -- Judy Chicago
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects. -- Jeff Koons
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. -- Helen Vendler
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing. -- Barry McGee
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books. -- Peter M. Brant
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school. -- Vera Wang
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring. -- Claire Danes
There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. -- Robert Nelson
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist. -- Jandy Nelson
I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too. -- Jandy Nelson
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum! -- Emmy Rossum
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels. -- Camille Paglia
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it. -- Teju Cole
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents. -- Denise Mina
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information. -- Philip Treacy
I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child. -- Frida Giannini
History develops, art stands still. -- E. M. Forster
I have a strong art-history background. -- Eli Roth
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. -- V. S. Naipaul
History is as much an art as a science. -- Ernest Renan
The history of art is the history of revivals. -- Samuel Butler
we may say that History develops, Art stands still -- E. M. Forster
People regard art too highly, and history not enough -- John Irving
The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions. -- Susan Sontag
In my world, history comes down to language and art. -- Theodore Bikel
History is remembered by its art, not its war machines. -- James Rosenquist
Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art. -- Don Spencer
History is conjecture raised to the level of an art. -- Marty Rubin
The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. -- Jerry Saltz
Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself. -- Clarence H. Burns
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information. -- Betty Edwards
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them. -- Susan Vreeland
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. -- William Howard Adams
I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work. -- Kehinde Wiley
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. -- Honore de Balzac
All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love. -- Mason Cooley
History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now. -- David Luiz
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art. -- Andrew Hoberek
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. -- Honore de Balzac
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself. -- Kenneth Clark
We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. -- Morgan Parker
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. -- Ezra Pound
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions. -- Cosima Spender
Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. -- Carlton J. H. Hayes
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. -- Theodor Adorno
Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history. -- George Clooney
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. -- Adam Gopnik
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history -- Christopher Wood
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. -- Charlie Chaplin
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history -- Judy Chicago
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. -- William Morris
For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you. -- David Salle
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. -- Golda Meir
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. -- Janet Flanner
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. -- Alfred de Vigny
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use. -- Ruth Benedict
No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. -- Emma Anderson
History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... -- Phyllis McGinley
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. -- Debbie Allen
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. -- Johann Gustav Droysen
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art. -- Kristen Wiig
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? -- David Mamet
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. -- Jeffrey Deitch
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious. -- Pamela Hanson
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute. -- Helen Vendler
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. -- Derek Walcott
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. -- Michael Scott
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history. -- Margaret Atwood
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. -- Chris Marker
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. -- Leslie Fiedler
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats. -- Frank Fairfield
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. -- Sean Scully
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth. -- James Altucher
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. -- Jean-Francois Chevrier
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. -- Cornell Capa
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. -- Marilyn Monroe
Feminist art... will take the great human themes â?? love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself â?? and render them fully human. -- Andrea Dworkin
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history. -- Charles Burnett
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification. -- Will Self
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. -- Victor Hugo
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer. -- Marc Almond
I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense. -- Anna Sui
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art. -- Barbara Goldsmith
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. -- Frances Mayes
I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on. -- Nick Kroll
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. -- David O. McKay
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history. -- Carlos Fuentes
Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job. -- Michael Kimmelman

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