“ In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. Erol Ozan
“ I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art. Kamand Kojouri
“ Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The only road to freedom is self-education in art. Art is not a luxury for any advancedcivilization; it is a necessity, without which creative intelligence will wither and die. Evenin economically tro… Camille Paglia
“ Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for… Terry Eagleton
“ But what is the use of the humanities as such? Admittedly they are not practical, and admittedly they concern themselves with the past. Why, it may be asked, should we engage in impractical investigat… Erwin Panofsky
“ The modern tendency towards increasing specialization in all branches of research and scholarship has discouraged comparative studies of the arts; and what we seldom do we generally distrust. But our… John Shearman
“ ... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a new and disturbing style in which the colors seemed to blaze… Anne Rice
“ "I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being have influenced my work and made it what you see today. I am inspired by Black people and Mexican… Melanie Anne Herzog
“ 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 w… Lucy R. Lippard
“ The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men. Siri Hustvedt
“ I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls. Siri Hustvedt
“ He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians. Johnny Rich
“ I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business. Thomas Hoving
“ The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they have killed it with their twaddle. Art is killed by the twaddle of the art historia… Thomas Bernhard
“ I do not think it possible to convey the moral energy that went into this division between abstraction and realism, from both sides, in those years. It had an almost theological intensity, and in anot… Arthur C. Danto
