What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? WHY YOUR FIVE-YEAR-OLD COULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT HOW TO SURVIVE MODERN ART” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso? — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that — Banksy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Compact trash into a cube. Then slice it into thin layers and BOOM—you’ve got pieces of modern art. Each sliver belongs in… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of… — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
HubSpot's offices occupy several floors of a 19th-century furniture factory that has been transformed into the cliche of what the home of… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We don’t get it. What’s modern art? Blah,… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important -… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon… — Albert Pinkham Ryder 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
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
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Fine art galleries are the excellent setups for exhibiting art, generally aesthetic art such as paints, sculptures, and digital photography. Basically, art… — Famous Art Galleries Copy Share Image
“FV: Hasn't all art, in a way, submitted to words - reduced itself to the literary...admitted its failure through all the catalogues… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat [sic] and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“ Ours is a bourgeois civilization. I am not using this term in its Marxian sense. Chicken! In the vocabularies of modern… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“The Addams dwelling at 25 West Fifty-fourth Street was directly behind the Museum of Modern Art, at the top of the building.… — Linda H. Davis Copy Share Image