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91 Modern Art quotes by 76 unique authors

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. — Edward Hopper
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. — Milan Kundera
I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended… — Jeff Koons
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. — Christopher Lasch
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. — Golda Meir
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. — Robert Motherwell
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and… — David Rockefeller
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person,… — David Rockefeller
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946,… — Jerry Saltz
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the… — Jerry Saltz
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 installations and gigantic… — Jerry Saltz
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. — Egon Schiele
I love to collect modern art. — Maria Sharapova
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's… — Tom Stoppard
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. — Tom Stoppard
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth… — Michael Tippett
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long… — Tom Wolfe
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. — Freddie Mercury
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the… — Banksy
I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this… — Akira Kurosawa
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. — Salvador Dali
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away… — Milan Kundera

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