Quotes on Identity by me

Bekiroglu

The Centre breaks from the rigid and often monumental Soviet architecture that is so prevalent in Baku, aspiring instead to express the sensibilities of Azeri culture

Schaumer

Parametricism is an autopoiesis, or a self-referential system, in which all the elements are interlinked

Griffith

An empty vessel that sucks in whatever ideology might be in proximity to it

Neo-Futurist Manifesto

The futurist legacy of optimism for the power of technology uniting with the imagination of humanity has a powerful resonance for our modern age

Quinn

It depends on my life to be created - it's made from the substance of me; and so I think of it as the purest form of sculpture

Januszak

One of the most significant sculptural moments in Britain's post war history

Lapper

It is so rare to see disability in everyday life - let alone naked, pregnant and proud

Aidin

The principal link between the YBAs was social and attitudinal

Koster

This picture seems both too alien to grasp and at the same time entirely straightforward

Hickson

The large size of the panels pushed Jan to new heights of virtuosity as a master of light

Wullschlager

A modern day pietà

Ofili

the image that stuck in my mind was not just his mother but sorrow - deep sorrow for someone who will never come back

Necipoğlu

Suleyman's intention was to build a mosque that would surpass all others built by his predecessors

Tauscher

The impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, continuity or symmetry

Jones

Advancements in technique allowed far richer, more luminous and closely detailed representations of people, landscapes, interiors and objects

Bloom

The long reign of Suleyman the Magnificent is also recognised as the apogee of Ottoman political and cultural development

Carter

A small-scale intimate work which problematises the relationship between Mexico and the United States

Harmon

Naïve works are often extremely detailed, and there is a tendency toward the use of brilliant, saturated colours rather than more subtle mixtures and tones

Clark

Sutherland’s Crucifixion is the successor to the Crucifixion of Grünewald and the early Italians

Sutherland

Many of the tortured [jewish] bodies looked like figures deposed from crosses

Demerdash

In the visual discourses of Orientalism, we must systematically question any claim to objectivity or authenticity

Friedrich

The artist's feeling is his law

Winckelmann

The only way for us to become great or if this be possible, inimitable, is to imitate the ancients

Wittkower

The grandest piece of portraiture of the Baroque age

Dapper

Beautiful and long square galleries ... from top to bottom covered with cast copper