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 More Quotes by Erwin Panofsky More Quotes From Erwin Panofsky The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur. Erwin Panofsky laconic might art