...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
“Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. — Herbert Read 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
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston 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 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
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
“ 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
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. — Thom Mayne 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
Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this… — Rajneesh 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
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I collect furniture and modern art. And I never go to any parties. I rather prefer to go around in nature. — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read 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
“If I were silent and invisible, I’d fear nobody. And if I were tasteless too, not even the cannibals or modern art… — Jarod Kintz 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
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
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
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