Quotes about Art history

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. Votes: 4

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long. Votes: 3

This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts. Votes: 3

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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) Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. Votes: 1

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history. Votes: 1

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects. Votes: 1

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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! Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

History develops, art stands still. Votes: 0

I have a strong art-history background. Votes: 0

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. Votes: 0

History is as much an art as a science. Votes: 0

The history of art is the history of revivals. Votes: 0

we may say that History develops, Art stands still Votes: 0

People regard art too highly, and history not enough Votes: 0

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions. Votes: 0

In my world, history comes down to language and art. Votes: 0

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines. Votes: 0

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art. Votes: 0

History is conjecture raised to the level of an art. Votes: 0

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art. Votes: 0

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. Votes: 0

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself. Votes: 0

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information. Votes: 0

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them. Votes: 0

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. Votes: 0

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work. Votes: 0

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Votes: 0

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love. Votes: 0

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now. Votes: 0

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art. Votes: 0

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Votes: 0

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself. Votes: 0

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. Votes: 0

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. Votes: 0

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions. Votes: 0

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. Votes: 0

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. Votes: 0

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history. Votes: 0

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. Votes: 0

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. Votes: 0

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history Votes: 0

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. Votes: 0

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history Votes: 0

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind. Votes: 0

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. Votes: 0

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you. Votes: 0

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. Votes: 0

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. Votes: 0

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. Votes: 0

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use. Votes: 0

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. Votes: 0

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... Votes: 0

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. Votes: 0

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. Votes: 0

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art. Votes: 0

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? Votes: 0

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. Votes: 0

I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious. Votes: 0

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute. Votes: 0

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. Votes: 0

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. Votes: 0

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history. Votes: 0

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. Votes: 0

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. Votes: 0

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats. Votes: 0

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. Votes: 0

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth. Votes: 0

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. Votes: 0

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art. Votes: 0

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. Votes: 0

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. Votes: 0

Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human. Votes: 0

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history. Votes: 0

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification. Votes: 0

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. Votes: 0

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer. Votes: 0

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist. Votes: 0

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art. Votes: 0

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. Votes: 0

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent. Votes: 0

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here. Votes: 0

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine. Votes: 0

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art. Votes: 0

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little. Votes: 0

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing. Votes: 0

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. Votes: 0

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem. Votes: 0

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. Votes: 0

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community's vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture. Votes: 0

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? Votes: 0

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream ... Votes: 0

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history. Votes: 0

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money. Votes: 0

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature. Votes: 0

The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks. Votes: 0

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature. Votes: 0

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again. Votes: 0

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years. Votes: 0

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next. Votes: 0

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow. Votes: 0

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art. Votes: 0

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice. Votes: 0

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. Votes: 0

The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong. Votes: 0

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art. Votes: 0

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too. Votes: 0

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective. Votes: 0

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago. Votes: 0

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history. Votes: 0

This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put a lot of boys in a room looking at art history. Votes: 0

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography. Votes: 0

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way. Votes: 0

Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories and themes can give the overall presentation a recognizable, yet unique flavor. Votes: 0

Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history. Votes: 0

He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's this dance back and forth. We were halfway through the dance. He died. Votes: 0