This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

— Jacques Maritain

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the…

— Edward Abbey

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers…

— Vaclav Havel

The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.

— Jacques Maritain

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

— Dario Robleto

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

— Salvador Dali

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…

— Luis Gonzalez

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

— Roger Scruton

I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich…

— Joan Smalls

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

— Henri Matisse

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes

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

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

— Robert Henri

Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea…

— Douglas Brinkley

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a…

— Cate Blanchett