The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern… — Paul Gauguin 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
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
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
“Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Renaissance… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in… — William Eggleston 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
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
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
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian 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
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri 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
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art. — Sylvester Stallone 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
“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
“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get… — Amy Heckerling Copy Share Image
