Art History

🇨🇦Marshall McLuhan

Philosophy

1911–1980

"The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations."

"The castle was far more than a walled and turreted fortress; it was an instrument of social control and the symbol of power, authority, and wealth."

🇺🇸Bernard Berenson

Art

1865–1959

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."

🇬🇧Roy Strong

Entertainment

b. 1935

"It will be like the end of time when the Queen dies."

🇬🇧Will Gompertz

Literature

b. 1965

"It is, after all, our imagination that makes us human. Vincent van Gogh asked, “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” To which the answer is, I would have thought, boring, bordering on pointless."

🇬🇧Anita Brookner

Literature

1928–2016

"It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons."

"This museum is a torpedo moving through time, its head the ever-advancing present, its tail the ever-receding past of 50 to 100 years ago."

🇬🇧John Berger

Art

1926–2017

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

🇬🇧Roger Fry

Art

Bloomsbury Group

1866–1934

"Only those who have experienced the elation and despair which comes from the attempt to express their feelings about vision in oil paint will know that it is impossible to speak with complete impartiality about art."

🇫🇷Georges Bataille

Literature

Structuralism

1897–1962

"Love then screams in my own throat; I am the Jesuve, the filthy parody of the torrid and blinding sun."