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 GoghA painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
Keith RichardsA painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de GoncourtA 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?"
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 CappAll art is quite useless.
Oscar WildeAlmost by definition, art has no practical function.
Steven PinkerSource: The Blank Slate
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles CooleyAn artist never really finishes his work,
he merely abandons it.
Paul Valéryhe 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 WhartonAnyway, 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 BarryArt completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
AristotleArt 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 StreisandArt 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 DoyleSource: 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 GideArt is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean CocteauArt is a product of an artist.
Modern art is a product of a self-proclaimed artist.
MinkukelModern art is a product of a self-proclaimed artist.
Art is a sense of magic.
Stan BrakhageArt is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Jean PaulArt is long, life is short.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich von SchillerArt is to look at not to criticize.
Edgar Allan PoeArt is to look at. Modern art is to talk about.
MinkukelArt is unconditional.
(unknown author)Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.
Jeet AulakhArt! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig van BeethovenArt's whatever you choose to frame.
Fleur AdcockAs the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
John Lubbock
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