"The history of art... resembles a broken but much-repaired chain made of string and wire to connect the occasional je…"

"Instead of an idea of style, which embraces too many associations, [I] have outlined the idea of a linked succession …"

"Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a v…"

"The seventeenth-century academic separation between fine and useful arts first fell out of fashion nearly a century ago."

"I was surprised, while preparing this lecture, to notice how, among my friends who had read the book, a division into…"

"The notion of style has long been the art historian's principal mode of classifying works of art. By style he selects…"

"Let us suppose that the idea of art can be expanded to embrace the whole range of man-made things, including all tool…"

"However useful it is for pedagogical purposes, the biological metaphor of style as a sequence of life-stages was hist…"

"We always may be sure that every man-made thing arises from a problem as a purposeful solution."

"The historian's special contribution is the discovery of the manifold shapes of time. The aim of the historian, regar…"