Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Jackson Pollock

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.

Tom Wolfe

It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

But, objectively, beyond the level of thought, the drunk on the street corner is equally a child of God.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

The most fulfilled among us are those who serve others.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

Illicit sex, Marcus, drives at least half the decisions of the modern world, wouldn’t you agree?

A Mixture of Madness

Victim fall in love with excuses

The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

Pat, it's not sexual – it's modern dance.

The Silver Linings Playbook

Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.

Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger