Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.” — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to… — Banksy Copy Share Image
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. — John Walford 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
I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies and as soon as… — Amy Heckerling Copy Share Image
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. — Jean-Francois Chevrier Copy Share Image
I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing… — Nicholas Sparks 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
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess 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
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves… — Milan Kundera 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
“Much of what was to become modern art and the changed concept of the function of museums was spurred by a cadre… — Ivy Hendy Copy Share Image
“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or… — Neville Weston 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
“Fine art galleries are the excellent setups for exhibiting art, generally aesthetic art such as paints, sculptures, and digital photography. Basically, art… — Famous Art Galleries Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Renaissance… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“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
My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in… — Jeff Vespa 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
“CONCERTS IN TOWN “Summergarden: New Music for New York” The Museum of Modern Art turns to music every summer, hosting a variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. — Golda Meir 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
“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
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
