What is Art? And what is Modern Art? Questions that can lead to a lot of discussions. Some of the answers can be found in this collection of quotes and proverbs about art and modern art. Enjoy!
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.Vincent van Gogh
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.Keith Richards
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.Edmond de Goncourt
A tiny but dignified old lady was among a group looking at an art exhibition in a newly opened gallery. One modern painting caught her eye. "What on earth," she inquired of the artist standing nearby, "is that?"
He smiled condescendingly. "That, my dear lady, is supposed to be a mother and her child."
"Well, then," snapped the little old lady, "why isn't it?"
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.Al Capp
All art is quite useless.Oscar Wilde
Almost by definition, art has no practical function.Steven Pinker
Source: The Blank Slate
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.Charles Cooley
An artist never really finishes his work,Paul Valéry
he merely abandons it.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.Edith Wharton
Anyway, in the corner of one container there was a ratty old collapsed armchair - worn, dirty, leaking stuffing, possibly housing active vermin colonies. I asked the gallery person if the chair was art, and she said yes, it was a work titled "Chair." I asked her what role the artist had played in creating "Chair." She said: "He found it."Dave Barry
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.Aristotle
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.Barbra Streisand
Art has no enemy except ignorance.(unknown author)
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.(unknown author)
Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.André Gide
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.Jean Cocteau
Art is a product of an artist.Minkukel
Modern art is a product of a self-proclaimed artist.
Art is a sense of magic.Stan Brakhage
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.Jean Paul
Art is long, life is short.
Art is the daughter of freedom.Friedrich von Schiller
Art is to look at not to criticize.Edgar Allan Poe
Art is to look at. Modern art is to talk about.Minkukel
Art is unconditional.(unknown author)
Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.Jeet Aulakh
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?Ludwig van Beethoven
Art's whatever you choose to frame.Fleur Adcock
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.John Lubbock
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.Not everybody has the same taste.
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.Anatoly Karpov
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.Daniel Dennett
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.Claude Monet
Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.Kim Nance
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.Pablo Picasso
Competitions are for horse, not artist.Béla Bartók
Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.Maria Semple
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
Creativity takes courage.Henri Matisse
Did you hear about the two little boys who found themselves in a modern art gallery by mistake?-"Quick," said one, "Run ! Before they say we did it!"(unknown author)
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.Malcolm Forbes
Drugs and alcohol are the cruel engine of many an artists' creativity.Nathan Hartzenberg
Every artist was first an amateur.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.Pablo Picasso
God and other artists are always a little obscure.Oscar Wilde
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.Leo Tolstoy
Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.Salvador Dali
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.Charles Rosin
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.Vincent van Gogh
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