“What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese. 'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Man in his upended street must know he is becoming a mere numerical item of convenience; on the way to being a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
People don't really want to hear me say this, but a black person who will give a million dollars to the Museum… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art and viewed the exhibition of Picasso's sculptures, and I couldn't help but think about what… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town… — Donovan Copy Share Image
Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot… — Prince William Copy Share Image
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
