The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish... — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn’t.” —Craig Damrauer The” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. — Freddie Mercury 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
Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of… — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
“Compact trash into a cube. Then slice it into thin layers and BOOM—you’ve got pieces of modern art. Each sliver belongs in… — Jarod Kintz 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
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important -… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here. — Richard Ashcroft 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
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
HubSpot's offices occupy several floors of a 19th-century furniture factory that has been transformed into the cliche of what the home of… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no… — Eve Arnold 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
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
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
The No. 1 quote critics give me is, 'Thom, your work is irrelevant.' Now, that's a fascinating, fascinating comment. Yes, irrelevant to… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
“The Addams dwelling at 25 West Fifty-fourth Street was directly behind the Museum of Modern Art, at the top of the building.… — Linda H. Davis 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
“Sudenly Garge spring up and walk to the wall to admire some modarn art hanging on Frank and Estele Catandas wall. Hes… — Seinfeld 2000 Copy Share Image
“If the West once undermined and helped to ultimately defeat the USSR by uniting free market economics, cool culture, and democratic politics… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and… — John Russell Copy Share Image
“ah yes, you like to cook, don't you? well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum… — David Amram Copy Share Image
Modern art has to be what is called intense. it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means… — GK Chesterton 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
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
I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get… — Amy Heckerling 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
“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
My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but… — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
“If we are to redeem any part of our world from the brute march of power, we may have to begin as… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
