Top 19 Modernist Art Quotes
#1. 92. Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.
Maggie Nelson
#2. I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.
Alice Lowe
#3. Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.
Brian Chesky
#4. I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
Cherie Lunghi
#5. As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, "Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art." In
David Bayles
#6. Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
Nathan Myhrvold
#7. The two most potent post-war orthodoxies
socialist politics and modernist art
have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.
Roger Scruton
#8. Sabina was now by herself. She went back to the mirror, still in her underwear. She put the bowler hat back on her head and had a long look at herself. She was amazed at the number of years she had spent pursuing one lost moment.
Milan Kundera
#9. My yearly goal is a closer walk with the Creator and a spiritual awaken of my soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. It occurred to him that he'd made a habit of pissing on the shoes of very powerful beings, but he'd never been a study in social graces. Why change now?
Kevin Lucia
#11. We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.
Marc Jacobs
#12. The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
Samuel Goldwyn
#13. Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.
Clement Greenberg
#14. I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.
Celine Dion
#15. I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#16. By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
Charles Francis Richter
#17. I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.
Louis Menand
#18. The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
Thomas Kinkade
#19. In the modernist era the division between art and the world was close to absolute, or put another way, art was a world of its own.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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