Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

Chad Harbach

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

Henry Louis Gates

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

James Ellroy

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

Marty Meehan

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Paul Begala

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

Pearl Cleage

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

Ralph Bakshi

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Simon Wiesenthal

If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

Alison Weir

Maj. Cotton: That must be the first 50 in the history of village cricket.

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

But technology is simply the making of things and the making of things can't by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty in the arts, which also include the making of things. Actually a root word of technology, , originally ...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

David Bailey

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

Jason McCoy

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Octavio Paz

Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.

Summer in February

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be exclud...

Adolf Loos

I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school a...

Scott Adkins

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

W.H. Auden

I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that's the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about this women's art that was out there ignored, and it was going to be me. A...

Lucy R. Lippard

Happy nations have no history.

Belgian