Modern Art Quotes
"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."
- Jackson Pollock
"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 other past culture."
- Jackson Pollock
"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
- John Anthony Ciardi
"Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art."
- Max Bill
"You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself."
- Milan Kundera
"What distinguishes Modern Art from the Art of other ages is criticism."
- Octavio Paz
"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."
- Paul Gauguin
"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture."
- Tom Stoppard
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