Quotes about Art history

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I do not think it possible to convey the moral energy that went into this division between abstraction and realism, from — Arthur C. Danto, After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art. — Kamand Kojouri
I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up — Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they hav — Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters: A Comedy
The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men. — Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
But what is the use of the humanities as such? Admittedly they are not practical, and admittedly they concern themselves — Erwin Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts
I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business. — Thomas Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The only road to freedom is self-education in art. Art is not a luxury for any advancedcivilization; it is a necessity, — Camille Paglia
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. — Erol Ozan
I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that's the work I like best. When I became a f — Lucy R. Lippard
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look a — Terry Eagleton
‎"I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being have influenced m — Melanie Anne Herzog
The modern tendency towards increasing specialization in all branches of research and scholarship has discouraged compar — John Shearman, Mannerism
... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimension — Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it — Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29
He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a — Johnny Rich, The Human Script
It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to — Theresa Sjoquist
When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, — Theresa Sjoquist, Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit
In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every s — Theresa Sjoquist