History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

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

biggest art fraud in history.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle.

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.