Modern Art Quotes
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A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.
— Robert Henri
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
— William Eggleston
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.
— Howard Hodgkin
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
— Golda Meir
When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.
— Richard Phillips
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.
— Erich Fromm
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
— Thom Mayne
You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.
— Alexandre Dumas
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.
— Camille Paglia
I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.
— Robert Hughes
Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see.
— Paul Christensen
I love art; I collect mostly modern art.
— Alan Patricof
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
— Christopher Lasch
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
— Oscar Wilde
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.
— Robert Motherwell
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
— Hans Hofmann
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
— Robert Gottlieb
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
— Egon Schiele
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
— Larry Wall
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
— Mark Rothko
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political
especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey
especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey
A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
— Camille Paglia
To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.
— Raoul Vaneigem
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish ...
— Herbert Read
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.
— David Rockefeller
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
— Freddie Mercury
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano. Modern art [by Salvador Dali].
— Joan Wehlen Morrison
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.
— Nelson Shanks
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
For goodness sakes, beware of curls ... It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
— Diana Vreeland
Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.
— Amit Chaudhuri
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
— Edith Wharton
Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.
— Sebastian Junger
Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.
— Neville Weston
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
— Tom Stoppard
I love to collect modern art.
— Maria Sharapova
The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
— Herbert Read
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
— Igor Babailov
Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.
— Henri Matisse
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.
— Harry Anderson
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.
— Dave Barry
The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.
— Barnett Newman
The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
— Jackson Pollock
Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things.
— Aldous Huxley
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
— Malik Bendjelloul
Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.
— Art Linkletter
There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.
— Douglas Brinkley
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.
— John F. Carlson
The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].
— A.S. Byatt
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving ... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.
— Nicholas Serota
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
— Andrea Bocelli
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
— Andrew Hoberek
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
— John Ciardi
Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.
— Roger Scruton
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
— Howard Rheingold
War is the highest form of modern art.
— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.
— Ryan Kwanten
What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.
— Meredith Duran
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
— Max Eastman
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
— Herbert Read
Remember The Poem ...
— R.M. Engelhardt
Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.
— Craig Damrauer
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
— Salvador Dali
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
— Jackson Pollock
How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?
— Hans Rookmaaker
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
— Diane Wakoski
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
— Robert Motherwell
Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. — Laurens Van Der Post
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. — Laurens Van Der Post
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
— Paula Rego
We are the modern day gladiators.
— Tito Ortiz
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
— Simon Schama
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
— Edward Hopper
All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
— Joyce Cary
In general, modern art ... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
— Herbert Read