Quotes About Modern

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

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

I personally always hated Pop art.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

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

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.

Pop art is for everyone.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.