"Art History" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Art History"

"What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can direct us towards the original. I was recently at the Louvre Museum and I was filming people who were viewing the Mona Lisa. I noticed the number of ordinary people, astonished, mouths agape, standing still for long stretches looking at the work, and I wondered, "Where does this come from? Are these people all art connoisseurs?" They are like me; through the years, we've seen this work in our schoolbooks or art history books, but when we stand before the original, we hold our breath."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#People #Book #Agape

"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

#Chinese #Stills #Class

"Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser."

--- Adam Gopnik

#Education #Eloquence #Erasers

"I do preach the idea of individualism as in not adapting any kind of style or model other than that one of your own. I always found it strange in art history when studying about the different guilds and movements. It sounded too contrived and having to follow devised parameters to create art. I personally am not a team player in that manner. The art should be labeled by the artist's name only."

--- Adamo Macri

#Found #Team #Style

"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

#People #Moments #Take Time

"History is too slow for our life, for our hearts."

--- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#History #Heart #Art History

"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

#Chapters #Giotto #Angry

"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

#Thinking #Asks #Circumstances

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

--- Aristotle

#Creative Expression #Fine Artists #Greek Philosopher

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

--- William Morris

#People #Remembered #Kings

"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."

--- Barry McGee

#Made #Today #Radical

"A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it."

--- William F. Buckley, Jr.

#Conservative #Urges #Yelling

"I can go to parties all the time and not see people I want to work with, but then sometimes I do, and the way I try to describe it is that I like to refer to art history a lot in my paintings, and there are some people who just have a face that feels like art historical. Like they could be in a Tiepolo painting as a person riding through the sky in a chariot, or she could be in a fashion magazine."

--- Will Cotton

#People #Party #Trying

"Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate."

--- Whitney Chadwick

#Conception #Productions #Males

"When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better."

--- Werner Herzog

#Scene #Primitive #Faces

"I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at the institute, Kathleen Blackshear. She was interested in silk screen and taught a class that I took."

--- Warren MacKenzie

#Dues #Screens #Class

"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

#College #Ambition #Okay

"I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side."

--- Black Francis

#Backgrounds #Adults #Artistic

"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

#New York #Abstract #Contemporary

"I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving."

--- Tommy Lee Jones

#Paid #Achieve #Cameras

"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 #Literary Criticism #Western

"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

#Thinking #Trash #Sight

"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

#Timelines #Features #Metropolitan

"A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts."

--- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Progress #History #Written

"Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair."

--- Terry Eagleton

#Affair #Literature And Art #Utility

"I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major."

--- Charlie Day

#Theater #Cutting #College

"People say graphic design is so different now, because you have so many more pixels and colors to work with... But when you study art history, you see there's just nothing new under the sun. Mosaics and needlework, it's all analogous to pixel and bitmap art. And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start."

--- Susan Kare

#People #Thinking #Graphic

"When you study art history, you learn that there is very little that is completely new, and in many ways digital art is no different. I love to derive inspiration from all types of images: mosaics, hieroglyphics, petroglyphs, woven patterns in textiles, and needlework. There is a lot of very good "pixel" design work before the 20th century, like a 1760 sampler by Elizabeth Laidman that looks like a bitmap font."

--- Susan Kare

#Different #Study #Art

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

--- Christopher Wood

#Term #Becoming #Danger

"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

#Way #Description #Knows

30 "Art History" Quotes