Modern Art Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Mike Curran

  Beautiful, Art, Ugly

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• ...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.

  Eve Arnold

  Art, Sex, Thinking

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• Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

  Lisette Model

  Photography, Art, Today

  Ann Thomas, Lisette Model, National Gallery of Canada (1990). “Lisette Model”, National Gallery of Canada

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• 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

  Art, Museums, Groups

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• My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He didn't consider himself an artist, but he was probably one of the artists of the 20th century. This guy documented all of Paris during those years. It's unbelievable. The books are phenomenal. The Museum of Modern Art has all his stuff now and [American photographer] Berenice Abbott saved his work. Not very much is known about his life, but the work is unreal and it totally spoke to me. He was the only artist for a number of years that I cared about at all.

  Jeff Vespa

  Teacher, Art, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Innovation, Modern

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• Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Desire, Kitsch

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• I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

  Joan Smalls

  Beautiful, Art, Museums

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• 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. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Art, Fun, Distance

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

  Paul McCartney

  Art, Modern, Concerned

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2012.

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• 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

  Art, Reading, Museums

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• Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Men, Giving

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• I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific sensations, and so has the film. But there are also problems in which the dividing line is obliterated, or where the two infringe upon each other. More especially, the cinema can fulfill certain promises made by the ancient arts, in the realization of which painting and film become close neighbors and work together.

  Hans Richter

  Art, Sight, Two

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• How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Ugly, Worship

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• 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

  Art, New York, School

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• High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

  Diane Wakoski

  Art, Together, Culture

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• Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You perhaps need the artist to explain his modern art, but you don't need anybody's help to understand a flower. You can deal with anything, you can do anything if you do not waste your energy trying to achieve imaginary goals.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Art, Memories, Flower

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• Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Mean, Expression

  Interview with William Wright, 1950.

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• After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this committed political art and the relation between beauty, violence, and memory. A tour de force.

  Jonathan Culler

  Art, Memories, Philosophical

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• The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

  Thom Mayne

  Art, Ignorance, Ideas

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• The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

  Duke Ellington

  Art, Modern

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

  Nelson Shanks

  Art, Pitfalls, Language

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• The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

  Banksy

  Art, Hate, Creativity

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• I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Art, Writing, Movement

  "Book Talk - Nicholas Sparks on telling stories through text, film". Interview with Billy Cheung, www.reuters.com. October 10, 2013.

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• I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Art, Technique, Way

  Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (1987). “Rashomon”, p.18, Rutgers University Press

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