Age Quote by Hans Rookmaaker

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

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

One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century…

— Jerry Uelsmann

There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there…

— Lawrence Weiner

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

— Egon Schiele

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

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago...

— Thomas Hoving

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

— Lucien Bourjeily

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

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function,…

— Ernst Fischer

Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period drama with…

— Claudia Jessie

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout…

— Andre Malraux