Quotes About Art

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

I didn't see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn't make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it's art, that's great, but I'll let history decide.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

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.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

History is as much an art as a science.