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
My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making… — Jackson Pollock 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
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico 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
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
“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening… — William Barrett 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
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
As a college-educated twentysomething woman with cool glasses and an affinity for modern art and Ryan Adams, I had the constant experience… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“I wanted a monument to myself in granite. I wanted my face in seven different colours. I wanted I LOVE YOU in… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
“ambitious provincial towns and tourist-oriented countries wanting to “do a Bilbao”—that is, to transform their reputations and raise their profile by commissioning… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“If we are to redeem any part of our world from the brute march of power, we may have to begin as… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“ah yes, you like to cook, don't you? well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an… — Haruki Murakami 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 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
Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something… — Paul Thek Copy Share Image
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum… — David Amram Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany… Most of our male colleagues… — Hannah Hoch 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
So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named… — Stephen Fry 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
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — D. H. Lawrence 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
“Wait. Like an art museum, or are we talking a history museum? I could tolerate the dinosaur bones and war relics, but… — Victoria Michaels Copy Share Image
