- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art History Quotes
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
- Attended
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-'90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic sensibility - no A.P. art history or African-American studies or language courses in Mandarin or Portuguese. I lived for English, for reading.
- Comedy Central
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Back To School
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020