Robert Nelson Quotes

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

I want to know art.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

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.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

I go to contemporary galleries all around the world when I can. There's always something historical and something contemporary; those are my rock references.

I'm just a fan of art and culture.

Buying art is not understanding art.

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 have a strong art-history background.

I'm enamored with the art world.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

Art matters.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.