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I love to collect modern art.
I love art; I collect mostly modern art.
I love art, I collect mostly modern art.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.
I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
I collect furniture and modern art. And I never go to any parties. I rather prefer to go around in nature.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here.
I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
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.
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
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.
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.
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.
When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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.
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.
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
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.
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.
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
It is important to consider that the horror movies should - like modern art - not have a too obvious meaning. When you watch them, it is more important what you feel than what you understand.
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.
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.
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.
People don't really want to hear me say this, but a black person who will give a million dollars to the Museum of Modern Art but won't give a million to the Studio Museum in Harlem is simply mistaken.
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.
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.