Modern art Quotes

War is the highest form of modern art.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

— Joyce Cary

“The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.”

— Dan Brown

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

— Salvador Dali

“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.”

— Craig Damrauer

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

— Alan Patricof

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

— Roger Scruton

I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.

— David Thewlis

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

— Paul McCartney

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

— Herbert Read

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

— Henri Matisse

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

— Nelson Shanks

“Pablo Picasso rode on the crest of the Modern Art wave. Several”

— Paul Brody

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

— Robert Henri

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

— Salvador Dali

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

— Ai Weiwei

“I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something…

— Jean-François Lyotard

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

“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

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest…

— Luis Gonzalez

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a…

— Christopher Lasch

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have…

— Larry Ellison

I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited…

— Neil Farber

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern…

— Banksy

I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'…

— Adrian Matejka

While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there…

— Louise Bourgeois

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be…

— Tom Stoppard

After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for…

— Jonathan Culler

I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of…

— Joan Smalls

“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

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

“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

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain…

— Robert Motherwell

“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

“Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. 'That's some…

— Joseph Heller

“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat [sic] and…

— Jane Mayer

“When the world one loves is seen to be dying, the viewer dies a little with it. A great American painter, Reginald…

— Anonymous

“ Ours is a bourgeois civilization. I am not using this term in its Marxian sense. Chicken! In the vocabularies of modern…

— Saul Bellow

“FV: Hasn't all art, in a way, submitted to words - reduced itself to the literary...admitted its failure through all the catalogues…

— Mort W. Lumsden