History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
History develops, art stands still.
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