Quotes About History

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

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.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

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

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

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

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

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.

People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was also very much involved with. But it still goes on. It's very much alive.

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

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

Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.

A museum is a place where nothing was lost, just rediscovered…

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?