Ancient Quote by John F. Carlson

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

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they…

— Oscar Wilde

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

— Herbert Read

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera…

— Jackson Pollock

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared…

— Van Deren Coke

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 A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was…

— Marya Mannes

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

— Jackson Pollock

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

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

— Ai Weiwei

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

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer