Art Quote by John Ciardi

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

— Freddie Mercury

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

Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead,…

— Igor Babailov

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's…

— Salman Rushdie

I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables…

— Jean Cocteau

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

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

— Nicholas Serota

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

— Paul McCartney

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have had means…

— Jackson Pollock

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a…

— Hans Rookmaaker

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

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself,…

— Louise Bourgeois