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History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.
Art history is littered with work that involves light.
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.
I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.
Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but I didn't have any sort of career aspirations.
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting does.
I've always done live art history lectures and small documentaries in the past in Australia, on Australian art and art galleries, so I've already done a lot of that.
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.
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.
The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.
I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too.
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.
At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy dress and walking through a market with a basket bursting full of figs.
There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.
Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.
I think that if someone told me I could have been a visual artist, I might have been a visual artist instead. And if I'd known I could have done art history, I would have done that. But I just didn't know.
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!
As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I devoured the knowledge, and it has served me well as a practising artist.
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.
I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a conversation about art history. I actually really enjoy looking at broader popular culture.
After I finished school I wanted to do a bunch of courses - art history in Florence, fashion in London and acting in Los Angeles. So I started with acting, and soon I knew this is it, this is what I need to do.
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.
I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.
Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.
I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.