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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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent van GoghI see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
Vincent van GoghIf art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
Bertolt BrechtIf there happens to be an abandoned air compressor nearby, it should have a sign that says: "Notice! This is not art!" so the public does not waste time enjoying the wrong thing.
Dave BarryIf you can talk about it, why paint it?
Francis BaconIf you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent van GoghIf you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Vincent van GoghImmature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel TrillingIn spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent van GoghIt's art if the artist says it's art. But what is an artist?
(unknown author)It's easy to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall, it's a painting. If you can walk around it, it's a sculpture.
(unknown author)Maybe the actual painting is on the other side.
Dave BarryModern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.
Craig DamrauerModern Art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.
(unknown author)Modern art is a joke!
(unknown author)Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John CiardiModern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Freddie MercuryMoonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel HawthorneMovies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
(unknown author)Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage LandorNature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
Thomas CarlyleNice frame!
Mr. BeanSource: Bean (movie 1997)
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent van GoghPainting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar DegasPaintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Vincent van GoghPeople always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.
Bill WattersonPoetry is a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
Carl SandburgPoetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent van GoghPublic Art, defined as "art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money."
Dave BarryPut some paint on a canvas, it doesn't matter how.
MinkukelSculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
Henry MooreSimplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James BaileySimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da VinciSkill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom StoppardThat's not a trash bag -- it's art!
Dave BarryThe artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene DelacroixThe artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
Oscar WildeThe arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
Ken RobinsonThe essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThe 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 GauguinThe impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.
Barnett NewmanThe only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Vincent van GoghThe true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
MichelangeloThere is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent van GoghTo the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.
Bob RossWhat distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio PazWhat garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-GaudensWhen nations grow old, the arts grow cold, and commerce settles on every tree.
William BlakeWhy is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
Fernando Pessoa
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