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Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

— Robert Motherwell

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

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

What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no…

— Louise Bourgeois

“The only art I've been ever interested in is the curve of a woman's legs as she lays on the floor gibbering in madness…

— Dennis Liggio

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

— Oscar Wilde

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.

— Nicholas Serota

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we…

— Andrea Bocelli

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

— Salvador Dali