Quotes about Modern art

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Brod was a brilliant intellectual with exceptional energy; a generous man willing to do battle for others; his attachmen — Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see. — Paul Christensen, The Hungry Wolves of Van Diemen's Land
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. — Freddie Mercury
They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash. — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means s — G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imaginati — Tom Stoppard, Artist Descending a Staircase
The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the c — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Ren — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shak — Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler Speaking
Realism without naturalism... is a leading motif in Modern Art. There is a move away from the struggle to perfect the re — Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant
He was eager to tell me about his latest work, which consisted of him vomiting on a footpath, then cordoning it off. Eac — Paul Christensen, Reveries of the Dreamking
The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday — Theodore Roosevelt, An Art Exhibition
While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned — Diego Rivera, My Art, My Life
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. — Egon Schiele