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Art Historian Inspirational Quotes (1961)

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Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth.
Walter Pater
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All art constantly aspires to the condition of music....In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression they inhere in and completely saturate each other.
Walter Pater
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater
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Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.
Sigfried Giedion
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Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.
Beatrice Warde
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Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.
Rudolf Arnheim
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson
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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
Suzanne La Follette
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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
Bernard Berenson
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I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.
Frank O'Hara
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A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.
Wendy Beckett
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There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
Wendy Beckett
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Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
Walter Pater
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There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.
John Ruskin
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The word artist means man unless qualified by the category woman.
Whitney Chadwick
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Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.
Jerry Saltz
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Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the intended way.
Luc Sante
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
Anita Brookner
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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berger
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Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.
Jacob Burckhardt
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When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.
Frank O'Hara
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When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
John Ruskin
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Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own.
William Cowper Prime
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