Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it.

LL Cool J

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.

Lupita Nyong'o

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Liz Phair

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Laura Riding

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Lou Reed

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Lynn Swann

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

Lili Taylor

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Margaret Atwood

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

Max Bill

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

Martin Gore

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

Ma Jian

From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.

Michael Keaton

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

Mika

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Martin Luther

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

Mary McCarthy

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

Michael Musto

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

Mstislav Rostropovich