Erwin Panofsky Quotes

• The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

  Erwin Panofsky

  Art, Might, Laconic

  Erwin Panofsky (1955). “Meaning in the visual arts: papers in and on art history”

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• While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

  Erwin Panofsky

  Art, Maids, Danger

  Erwin Panofsky, William S. Heckscher (1997). “Three Essays on Style”, p.120, MIT Press

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