"The true miracle of the language of art is not that it enables the artist to create the illusion of reality. It is th…"

"The point is rather that all of them felt, consciously or unconsciously, that if they let go of the magnet that creat…"

"In my own field, the History of Art, it was Alois Riegl who, at the turn of the century, worked out his own translati…"

"There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists."

"Like art, science is born of itself, not of nature. There is no neutral naturalism. The artist, no less than the writ…"

"Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there."

"If Van Eyck's patrons had all been Buddhists he would neither have painted the Adoration of the Lamb nor, for that ma…"

"I hope and believe cultural history will make progress if it also fixes its attention firmly on the individual human …"

"Whether we know it or not, we always approach the past with some preconceived ideas, with a rudimentary theory we wis…"

"We are all inclined to accept conventional forms or colours as the only correct ones. Children sometimes think that s…"