#modern art

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

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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. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#art #audience #consumer #distance #maintain

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. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #image #just #largely #make

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#enormous #huge #ideas #ignorance #modern

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#deeper #discover #i #i think #meanings

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. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#believe #coming #good #identify #make

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#art #imagination #itself #modern #modern art

I love to collect modern art. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#collect #i #i love #love #modern

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. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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