Abstract Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Jubal shrugged. "Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what they call…

— Billy Al Bengston

“If [modern artists] hadn’t lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do,…

— Eric Kandel

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot…

— Jackson Pollock

“Madness? Categories such as that do not exist – as far as I'm concerned, everything is healthy, except for fruit and vegetables. In art,…

— Elfriede Jelinek

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune…

— Lena Dunham

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

— Jackson Pollock

I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch…

— Andy Wilkinson

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that…

— Bill Viola

“Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.”

— Destiny Allison