Art Quote by Lepota L. Cosmo

I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise,…

— Hans Arp

“Franz Schulze’s book “Fantastic Images” had a lot of impact on me. Mark Pascale turned me on to that book when I was twenty…

— Audrey Niffenegger

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat…

— J. G. Ballard

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

— Frida Kahlo

Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their…

— Genesis P-Orridge

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

— Vincente Minnelli

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive…

— David Rockefeller

“Dada demonstrated that a society that had lost respect was no longer in a position to demand that the artist adhere to its aesthetic…

— Marc Dachy

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been…

— Walter Benjamin

Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or…

— Chloe Sevigny

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe…

— Hans Arp

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian…

— John Updike