Modern Painting Quotes
- For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
- With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind… — Unknown Author
- Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both… — Robert Motherwell
- I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It… — Philip Guston
- A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a… — Marya Mannes
- With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black! — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who,… — Mary McCarthy