The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Our art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota 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
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
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
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
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
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. — John Walford 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
I think I twisted my ankle yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art. Or maybe at the Ancient History Museum or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art,… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess 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
“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
“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
“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
“If the West once undermined and helped to ultimately defeat the USSR by uniting free market economics, cool culture, and democratic politics… — Peter Pomerantsev 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
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
“Sudenly Garge spring up and walk to the wall to admire some modarn art hanging on Frank and Estele Catandas wall. Hes… — Seinfeld 2000 Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes 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
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
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn’t.” —Craig Damrauer The” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
