“ambitious provincial towns and tourist-oriented countries wanting to “do a Bilbao”—that is, to transform their reputations and raise their profile by commissioning… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the… — Theodor Adorno 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
I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We don’t get it. What’s modern art? Blah,… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Wait. Like an art museum, or are we talking a history museum? I could tolerate the dinosaur bones and war relics, but… — Victoria Michaels Copy Share Image
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn 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
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the… — Tom Wolfe 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
Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative… — Andre Malraux 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
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
