Modern Art Quotes

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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available… — Charles Baudelaire
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't… — Andrea Bocelli
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian
Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have… — Rajneesh
Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something very unpleasant, very… — Paul Thek
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving… — Harold Rosenberg
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear… — Susan Sontag
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little. — Banksy
Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us. — Henri Matisse
I love art, I collect mostly modern art. — Alan Patricof
Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the oldâ€¦Have you… — Albert Pinkham Ryder
There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one is directed towards… — Theo van Doesburg
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist. — Herbert Read
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to… — Herbert Read
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific… — Hans Richter
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski

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