Art History Quotes - Page 5

• When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me.

  Ali Banisadr

  Art, Important, Giotto

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Depressing, Art, Games

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Thinking, Sight

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.210, Vintage

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• Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

  Jessi Klein

  Art, College, Degrees

  "Comedian Jessi Klein Plays Not My Job Listen". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 8, 2011.

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• 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

  Art, Pedants, Magazines

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there was always that refusal to settle in one place, or one discipline or medium.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Art, Eye, Discipline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.

  Walter Martin

  Art, Ambition, College

  "Back to School with Walter Martin". Interview with Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

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• If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

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• Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

  Rene Magritte

  Motivational, Art, Serendipity

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Emotion

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

  William Morris

  Art, Kings, Warrior

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Flower, Judging

  "Is Cooking Ever an Art?" by John Mariani, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Dance, Art

  "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

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• Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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• 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

  Love, Art, Self

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.51, Yale University Press

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• 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

  Heart, Thinking, History

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• 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

  Father, Heart, Hands

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• 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

  Art, Men, Mirrors

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• 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

  Art, Wind, Demand

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