Famous quotes containing the words art and/or historical:
“True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.”
—George Grosz (1893–1959)