Modern Art Quotes
Modern Art Quote of the day
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?
Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.
How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see.
They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.