Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by David Sylvester

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British critic David Sylvester.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
David Sylvester

Anthony David Bernard Sylvester was a British art critic and curator. Although he received no formal education in the arts, during his long career he was influential in promoting modern artists, in particular Francis Bacon, Joan Miró, and Lucian Freud.

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. — © David Sylvester
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.
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