#modern art

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ↗

— John Ciardi

#better #better idea #happens #idea #looking

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. ↗

— Golda Meir

#conventional #dealing #history #knowing #modern

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#behind #european #mask #matter #modern

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

#art #hangs #hard #modern #modern art

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#baskets #craftsmanship #gives #imagination #many

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#art #been #before #common #doing

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#art #being #certain #conspiracy #decently

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

#am #art #guess #i #i am

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

— Diane Wakoski

#art #come #culture #excluded #high

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed