#modern art

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. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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

— Milan Kundera

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They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. ↗

— David Rockefeller

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

— Octavio Paz

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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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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

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

— Golda Meir

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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

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