Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Francis Bacon

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George W. S. Trow

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

Mark E. Smith

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Peabo Bryson

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Phillip Noyce

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Rodney King

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

James Buchan

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

James Martineau

Truly, was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

Ernst W. Mayr

Lamont: Just remember, in here, you the nigga. Not me.

American History X

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Ahmed Best

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Ad Reinhardt

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Andrew Stanton

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Ai Weiwei

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

Bruce Willis

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

Chris Stein

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Ernst Fischer

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

Eriq La Salle