#modern art

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

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

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

#also #artist #audience #become #concern

I love to collect modern art. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#collect #i #i love #love #modern