#art history

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Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.


Robert Smithson


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I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.


George Hickenlooper


#art #art forms #art history #cinema #culmination

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.


Claire Danes


#afraid #art #art history #because #boring

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.


Herb Ritts


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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


#appreciation #art #art history #aspects #historians

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.


Chuck Close


#art history #description #great #history #know