Arthur C. Danto

“What in the end makes the difference between a Brillo box and a work of art consisting of a Brillo box is a certain theory of art.”

“Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds.”

“A work of art is an object that embodies a meaning.”

“There is no art without interpretation.”

“Art is a mirror of the world, but a transforming mirror.”

“The moments of aesthetic arrest are the moments that make life worth living.”

“My view is that to be a work of art is to be a representation.”

“You can't just look at a work of art. You have to know the history of art.”

“The history of art has an internal logic that finds its way through the vicissitudes of human history.”

“We are all of us, in a way, post-historical.”

“Philosophy is the childhood of the human race.”

“To see something as art requires something the eye cannot decry—an atmosphere of artistic theory, a knowledge of the history of art: an artworld.”

“The end of art does not mean the end of art-making.”

“Warhol's great achievement was to have collapsed the distinction between high and low art.”

“The truth is the style.”