“When Marsyas was 'torn from the scabbard of his limbs' - DELLA VAGINA DELLA MEMBRE SUE, to use one of Dante's most… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind… — Robert Irwin 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
“They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“The real reason that students and increasingly teachers of art history are ready to jettison the past, however, is that the refusal… — Christopher S. Wood Copy Share Image
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the world one loves is seen to be dying, the viewer dies a little with it. A great American painter, Reginald… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Although Jung’s distaste for modern art would preclude it, he would have been relieved to know that his wasn’t the only sensitive… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this? — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
“Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish... — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
