Quotes About History

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

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.

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.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

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

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

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

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.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

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.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

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

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

I have a strong art-history background.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.