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Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that — Banksy
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso? — Duke Ellington
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. — Thom Mayne
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in… — Jonathan Culler
Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You perhaps need the… — U.G. Krishnamurti
How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this? — Hans Rookmaaker
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. — John Walford
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the… — P.J. O'Rourke
All art is bad, but modern art is the worst. — Joyce Cary
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent… — Howard Hodgkin
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my… — D. H. Lawrence
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered… — Jean Cocteau
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's… — Anthony Burgess
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores… — Theodor Adorno
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of… — Edward Weston
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have… — Edward Weston
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish... — Herbert Read
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. — Herbert Read
What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled… — Louise Bourgeois
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. — Paula Rego
As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art. — Paul McCartney
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist… — Paul Gauguin

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