Finished work Quote by Robert Smithson

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

— 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

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

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

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

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action…

— Paul Valéry

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

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

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It…

— Edgard Varese

“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them to art…

— Jimmy Carter

For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the…

— Robert Motherwell

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