Anna Maria Garthwaite: She defined the English style. ibid.
Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun ... She painted 37 self-portraits. ibid.
In 1842 the government opened its very first female school of design. Amanda Vickery, The Story of Women and Art III
Lady Elizabeth Butler: the Florence Nightingale of the brush. ibid.
Berthe Morisot: She was the one who bore the brunt of the attention ... She was a phenomenon. ibid.
Gertrude Jekyll: approached a garden like a painting. ibid.
Georgia O’Keeffe: ‘Things I think and feel but don't have words for.’ ibid.
His list of achievements is staggering ... As a television presenter Clark made the greatest impact. Kenneth Clark: Portrait of a Civilised Man: A Culture Show Special, BBC 2014
Civilisation: it was the most ambitious series ever made, and hailed by many as a masterpiece. ibid.
Aged just 30 he was appointed the youngest ever director of the National Gallery. ibid.
Conceptual artist Ryan Gander – a cultural magpie renowned for his cryptic, playful yet challenging works. Gander is one of the world's most exciting artists. His prolific output is all about storytelling and the power of ideas. The Culture Show: Ryan Gander: The Art of Everything, BBC 2014
We’re artists. And we love folk art. The Culture Show: Deller and Kane, BBC 2014
I really thought what I would do if I ever learnt to draw properly is I would try to change the world. For No Good Reason 2014 starring Ralph Steadman & Johnny Depp & Hunter S Thompson & Terry Gilliam & Richard E Grant & Jann Wenner & Hall Willner et al, director Charlie Paul, Ralph Steadman
Subsidy is for art, culture. It is not to be given to what the people want; it is for what the people don’t want but ought to have. Yes, Minister s3e7: The Middle-Class Rip-Off, Sir Humphrey to Bernard, BBC 1982
Subsidising art in this country is nothing more than a middle-class rip-off. ibid. Jim to Sir Humphrey, with Bernard
The Royal Opera House is the establishment at play. ibid.
The Country Crafts and Folklore Council – the Rafia Mafia. ibid. Bernard to Jim
Arts and television together? What have they got to do with each other? ibid. civil servant at lunch with Sir Humphrey & Arnold
A place of golden beaches and bodies. Barbecues and bikinis. Endless empty land. Sydney Harbour. But art and culture? Edmund Capon, The Art of Australia I: Strangers in a Strange Land, BBC 2013
Australian art reflects the development of a unique and incredibly diverse culture. ibid.
One in four Australians are born overseas. ibid.
Glover painted the original inhabitants in many of his landscapes ... A fantasy, there were no Aboriginal settlers on his land. ibid.
Romanticism ... Von Guerard has an unerring eye for the details of the natural world. ibid.
The spiritual home and nerve centre of Australian impressionism was here in Heidelberg on the outskirts of Melbourne ... They became known as the Heidelberg School. ibid.
The 9x5 Exhibition: in 1889 these rough and ready pictures were exhibited on the first floor of Buxton’s rooms in the heart of Melbourne. It was the first time in Australian art that a group of artists had banded together. ibid.
One of the great icons of Australian art – Tom Roberts’ Shearing the Rams. ibid.
Lambert: The Landing at Gallipoli ... ‘the scrambling crawling khaki figures’. Edmund Capon, The Art of Australia II: Coming of Age
Grace Cossington Smith was something of a radical innovator. ibid.
Charles Mears’ Beach Pattern has a photographic quality ... it’s an impressive but strange, almost surreal painting. ibid.
Bergner painted the most challenging picture from this era - Aborigines in Fitzroy. ibid.
Tucker was stationed at a local military hospital. ibid.
Boyd instils the human experience with an almost mythic dimension. ibid.
Modern art in Australia had come of age. ibid.
The revolutionary impact of the abstract. ibid.
Its haunting landscapes. Its ever-present dangers. Its dramatic and controversial history. And of course its great beauty. Edmund Capon, The Art of Australia III: Beyond Australia
Whiteley found abstraction limiting and went on to create erotic lyrical style ... The bad boy of Australian art. ibid.
Aboriginal art was internationally fashionable. The corporate world was quick to take advantage. ibid.
The artist will move future generations when the bones of kings have long since mouldered away. Franz Alexander von Kleist, Dresden 1792
Chiura Obata had arrived in the United States in 1903 at age 17, a promising young painter ... For three months he and two other artist friends tramped the high country taking in all the park had to offer. Ken Burns, The National Parks: Not For the Rich Alone 1936-1945, PBS 2009
The whole idea about the Romans’ artistic incompetence is a myth. The Treasures of Ancient Rome I: Warts n All, BBC 2012
The Romans transformed art and defined the way we view the ancient world. ibid.
The Romans invented a new form of art – warts n all realism. ibid.
What icons of Roman art can we really trust? ibid.
What makes Pompeii so special is that exquisite and fragile works of art have been preserved in almost perfect condition. ibid.
Emperors like Trajan were the masters of this new type of strident declamatory art. They transformed their public monuments into big brash billboards boasting of their conquests. The Treasures of Ancient Rome II: Pomp and Perversion
This was an era of exuberance and great artistic triumphs. ibid.
As far-flung provinces like this one [Libya] starting gaining power and flexing their muscles, the Empire began to strike back ... It benefited Roman art. The Treasures of Ancient Rome III: The Empire Strikes Back
Only a fraction of Rome’s population was Christian. ibid.
Christian art evolved from a very Roman tradition. ibid.
Divine in form, sacred in function: holy buildings are amongst the most beautiful and the most enduring achievements of mankind. John McCarthy, Art of Faith: Islam, Sky Arts 2008
The Muslims built the first great masterpiece of Islamic art: the Dome of the Rock. ibid.
One of the most significant of these early mosques was built at Kairouan in modern Tunisia. ibid.
Everyone calls this the Blue Mosque but it’s official name is Sultan Ahmed Mosque. ibid.
The Taj Mahal ... remains serene, glowing and glorious, a sublime achievement of beauty and faith. ibid.
Assyafaah Mosque, Singapore: completed in 2004. ibid.
Adolf Hitler purged art he hated, and he stole art he coveted. The Rape of Europa 1, PBS 2008
Lost art is still being found; battle damage is still being repaired, and stolen masterpieces are still caught up in bitter disputes. ibid.
Art continued to obsess him, and became part of his political agenda. ibid.
Organised looting of Jewish property began on a massive scale. ibid.
Today, the struggle over Adele Bloch-Bauer’s portrait is only one of many such disputes still unresolved. ibid.
Sixty years after the war, a panel of Austrian judges awarded to Maria Altmann and her family the five paintings by Gustav Klimt, including the portrait of her aunt. ibid.