Quotes of: Modern-art Keyword

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 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

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

What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.

Wicked Becomes You

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

David Amram

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

Howard Hodgkin

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

Siri Hustvedt

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

The Writing of Fiction

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.

Jim Lee

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Artist Descending a Staircase

Entertainment is business: the business of fucking art in the face.

The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state ...

Chinese Art of Tea

When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.

Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

Andrea Bocelli

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Max Eastman