Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that — Banksy Copy Share Image
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso? — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I collect furniture and modern art. And I never go to any parties. I rather prefer to go around in nature. — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
“What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that… — Neville Weston 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
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
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota 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
“Our art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me… — Barbara Kruger 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
Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern… — Gary North 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
Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
I think I twisted my ankle yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art. Or maybe at the Ancient History Museum or the… — Anonymous 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
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which… — Diego Rivera 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
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Whenever there was an opening for a new show, she would invite him; there would be champagne and hors d’oeuvres, women in… — Shari Lapena Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
“They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
