Quotes from E. H. Gombrich

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.

The history of the world is, sadly, not a pretty poem. It offers little variety, and it is nearly always the unpleasant things that are repeated, over and over again.

What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were no less real than you and I are today.

All art originates in the human mind, in our reactions to the world rather than in the visible world itself, and it is precisely because all art is "conceptual" that all representations are recognizable by their style.