The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
“They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
People don't really want to hear me say this, but a black person who will give a million dollars to the Museum… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern… — Banksy Copy Share Image
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
“Much of what was to become modern art and the changed concept of the function of museums was spurred by a cadre… — Ivy Hendy Copy Share Image
“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“Alexander emerges as an almost Hamlet-like figure, more sinned against than sinning. In a sense Alexander, too, was haunted and motivated by… — Andrew Chugg Copy Share Image
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“CONCERTS IN TOWN “Summergarden: New Music for New York” The Museum of Modern Art turns to music every summer, hosting a variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jubal shrugged. "Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
“Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
