Art Quote by Jeffrey Deitch

I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which…

— Jeffrey Deitch

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

— Tom Stoppard

“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and…

— Neville Weston

Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything,…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than…

— Robert Hughes

Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity.…

— John Berger

“Early in this century a group of passionate artists in Russia claimed that the essence of art was to make the familiar seem strange.…

— Sueellen Campbell

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with…

— Zaha Hadid

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out…

— Edvard Munch

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

— Kehinde Wiley