We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.
- David Amram
It's like this article I read the other day about the decline of the firefly population. One of the reasons they're disappearing is because of modern artificial lighting. Fireflies can't find the signals of their mates, because they're so distracted by porch lights, streetlamps, illuminated sign letters...You think you've found the perfect mate and you head for him, blinking as fast as you can, and then you find out he's a Bic lighter.
- Lisa Kleypas
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
- Banksy
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
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
Modern art has to be what is called 'intense.' it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Christianity was beauty created by controlling a million monsters of ugliness... modern art and science practically mean having the million monsters and being unable to control them..
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- John Ciardi
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
- Robert A Heinlein
The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.
'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.
- J P Donleavy
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
- Milan Kundera
My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.
- Lena Dunham
I love to collect modern art.
- Maria Sharapova
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.
- Hansgeorg Gadamer
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
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
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
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
- Ed Harris
That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed.
'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed.
Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art...
- Joseph Heller
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.
- Robert Henri
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
- Howard Hodgkin
Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
- Brad Holland
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
- Brad Holland
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
- Edward Hopper
So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple." Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Walter Isaacson
If I were silent and invisible, I'd fear nobody. And if I were tasteless too, not even the cannibals or modern art critics would touch me.
- Jarod Kintz
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
I like silent pictures and I always have... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
- Akira Kurosawa
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
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
- Thom Mayne
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
- Golda Meir
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
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
- Octavio Paz
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
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
- Jackson Pollock
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
- Jackson Pollock
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
- Jackson Pollock
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
- Ezra Pound
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.
- Herbert Read
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.
- Herbert Read
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
- David Rockefeller
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
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
- Egon Schiele
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
I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.
- Gloria Trevi
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
- Diane Wakoski
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Edith Wharton
What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion ... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
If [modern artists] hadn't lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for 'art' that leaves him unmoved.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
- David Amram
It's like this article I read the other day about the decline of the firefly population. One of the reasons they're disappearing is because of modern artificial lighting. Fireflies can't find the signals of their mates, because they're so distracted by porch lights, streetlamps, illuminated sign letters...You think you've found the perfect mate and you head for him, blinking as fast as you can, and then you find out he's a Bic lighter.
- Lisa Kleypas
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
- Banksy
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
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
Modern art has to be what is called 'intense.' it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Christianity was beauty created by controlling a million monsters of ugliness... modern art and science practically mean having the million monsters and being unable to control them..
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- John Ciardi
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
- Robert A Heinlein
The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.
'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.
- J P Donleavy
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
- Milan Kundera
My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.
- Lena Dunham
I love to collect modern art.
- Maria Sharapova
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.
- Hansgeorg Gadamer
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
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
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
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
- Ed Harris
That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed.
'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed.
Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art...
- Joseph Heller
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.
- Robert Henri
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
- Howard Hodgkin
Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
- Brad Holland
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
- Brad Holland
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
- Edward Hopper
So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple." Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Walter Isaacson
If I were silent and invisible, I'd fear nobody. And if I were tasteless too, not even the cannibals or modern art critics would touch me.
- Jarod Kintz
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
I like silent pictures and I always have... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
- Akira Kurosawa
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
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
- Thom Mayne
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
- Golda Meir
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
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
- Octavio Paz
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
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
- Jackson Pollock
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
- Jackson Pollock
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
- Jackson Pollock
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
- Ezra Pound
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.
- Herbert Read
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.
- Herbert Read
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
- David Rockefeller
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
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
- Egon Schiele
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
I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.
- Gloria Trevi
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
- Diane Wakoski
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Edith Wharton
What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion ... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
If [modern artists] hadn't lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for 'art' that leaves him unmoved.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
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