Best artist & modern Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless ambient mix that shows Subb-an has more strings to his bow. We are always keen to push artists out of their comfort zone and really show the world what they are capable of.”

World Shows Artist Pieces Modern Comfort Capable Complexes Musical Rhythm Zone Strings Bows Comfort Zone Intricate Weaving Ambient Modern Love

Author:Subb-an

“Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.”

Artist Belief Beauty Modern Metaphor Belief Systems Modern Art Dubious Postmodern

Author:John Walford

“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”

War Artist Individual Lost Modern Approach Definitions Acknowledgement Individual Life

Author:Maya Lin

“On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.”

Mean Whole Earth Used Artist Black Can Do Modern Ivory Palette Pompeii

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.”

Doe Said Facts Artist Strong Attention Modern Subjects Painting Competition Size Colour Unusual Sheer Unfortunate Ruined Tempted Grotesque Exhibitions Sensationalism

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“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.”

Art Artist Loss Audience Modern Art Is Concern Architecture Progressive Modern Art

Author:Paul Gauguin

“When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters.”

Artist Lost Modern Faults Technique Painter Expenses Sincerity Principal Strokes Preoccupation

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.”

“In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river... Could rivalry be a productive system?”

World Artist Force Voice Modern Protect Ego Unique Rivers Competition Individuality Artistic Productive Solo Rivalry Modern Times Paddling

Author:Sara Genn

“If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.”

Ifs Feels Made Artist Term Modern Ideals Perfection Importance Notion Confusion Painter Masterpiece Qualms Qualms About

Author:Andre Malraux

“And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.”

Thinking Men Persons Artist Can Do Modern Movement Ought One Man

Book:Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

Source: Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

“The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy , the motion and the other inner forces ... the modern artist is working with space and time , and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”

World Mean Feelings Seems Age Artist Energy Force Space Modern Objects Cameras Photograph Time And Space Representing Inner World Modern Art Illustrating

Author:Jackson Pollock

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Artist Found Growth Natural Modern Strange Method Paint Technique Unusual Usual New Ways Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.”

Knows Seems Able Artist Found Know How Modern Murderer Conqueror

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.”

May Art War Artist Simple Modern Dare Complicated Violent Innocence Works Of Art Modern War

Book:The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

“You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.”

Men Looks Art Made Seems Artist Felt Emotion Taken Modern Pairs Works Of Art Cleaners Trousers

Author:Francis Picabia

“Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.”

People Country Problem Young Artist Modern Style Type Competing Music Love Country Love

Author:George Jones

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