Quotes About Art Historians

#1. It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself
which is what they are most needed for.

Rudolf Arnheim

#2. It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

Chuck Close

#3. Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.

Harold Rosenberg

#4. I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

David Rockefeller

#5. I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

John Olsen

#6. The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

Bill Viola

#7. When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Luc Tuymans

#8. He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

Johnny Rich

#9. Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

Johan Huizinga

#10. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.

Polly Horvath

#12. Painters
and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

Julian Beever

#14. Nothing written in any book is a perfect reflection of truth.( ... )
No teachings and no bibles on earth are perfect. They can never be
so, for this is an imperfect universe. The perfection isn't here,
it is in the worlds beyond, and this is what we are trying to reach.

Harold Klemp

#15. And I love you and your biological clock is ticking so we best get started on that shit.

Kristen Ashley

#16. But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Diane Johnson

#17. Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#18. Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

Stephen Kinzer

#19. I'm not a smuggler, I'm a missionary. I have chosen to be obedient and not turn away from danger. So when government says, 'No!', I said, 'wait a minute', God said, 'Go!', so I didn't listen to the 'No!'

Andrew Van Der Bijl

#20. Take everything as a compliment, you can never be insulted.

Joe Abercrombie

#21. To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.

Cornel West

#22. I really love a red lip, especially when I am feeling tired, as it brightens my whole face.

Miranda Kerr

#23. Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Josef Albers

#24. There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Christopher Bram

#25. Can the leopard change his spots?" Emrys mused. "Leopards have, but the other leopards don't like it.

Jo Graham

#26. If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.

India.Arie