Quotes of: Modern-art Keyword

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

David Bailey

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

Jason McCoy

Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.

Summer in February

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be exclud...

Adolf Loos

I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school a...

Scott Adkins

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

W.H. Auden

I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that's the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about this women's art that was out there ignored, and it was going to be me. A...

Lucy R. Lippard

If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any ot...

Jackson Pollock

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the c...

Christian de Portzamparc

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buil...

Harry Seidler

Everyone is moving at the same speed toward the future. But your children are moving at that same speed with their eyes closed. So you're the ones who've got to steer.

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

So by being created, you are automatically made manifest within a system in which you are directly associated with your creator, and it is this association that we define as a relationship.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Time is in essence separation; separation produces pain; pain poesis; and poesis is what constitutes the unending stream of human life in this world.

Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise.

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation