Danto Quotes & Sayings

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it. — Arthur C. Danto

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at — Arthur Danto

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure. — Arthur C. Danto

In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits. — Arthur Danto

A lot happens when the prince and princess live happily ever after--the king, his father, dies, so he is now ruler and she his queen, they have their children, she conducts discreet affairs with Sir Lancelot, there are border uprisings...but still the story ended when the love toward which their destinies drove them came to mutual consciousness when they knew, each knowing the other knew, that they were meant for each other. — Arthur C. Danto