Art Quote by Alexander Rodchenko

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

— Hans Hofmann

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself,…

— Louise Bourgeois

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today…

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

— Egon Schiele

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

— David Elliott

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so…

— Banksy

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at…

— Martin Firrell

art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become…

— Susan Sontag

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question…

— Alain de Botton

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with…

— Antony Gormley

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

— Edward Steichen