18th century Quote by Robert Smithson

When a finished work of 20thcentury sculpture is placed in an 18th-century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus…

— Robert Smithson

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it,…

— M.I.A

If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an…

— Frederick Hart

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

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all…

— Barbara Hepworth

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

— Douglas Sirk

“Many 18th- and 19th-century artists rejected, criticized, or ignored the Industrial Revolution. Instead of uplifting man, industry seemed to demoralize and dehumanize him. Men,…

— Jesse Bryant Wilder

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

— Paul Tillich

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with…

— Philip Guston

Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into…

— Malvina Hoffman

Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive…

— Wassily Kandinsky