Modernist Artist Quotes

#1. In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.

Roger Scruton

#2. The laughing, snuggling heap on the ground was her baseline.

Becky Chambers

#3. My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

Kate Atkinson

#4. I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#5. The Brighton air used of old to make plain girls pretty and pretty girls prettier still - I don't know whether it works the spell now.
("Sir Edmund Orme")

Henry James

#6. Being scared is not always something to be scared of

Liz Bowen

#7. Do not think that I have come to abolish q the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but r to fulfill them. 18For truly, I say to you, s until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Anonymous

#8. When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.

Confucius

#9. I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

Alex Winter

#10. I heard a guy tell me he liked cherries. I waited to hear if he was going to say "tomatoes", then I realized he like cherries just. That joke is ridiculous.

Mitch Hedberg

#11. You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.

William Carlos Williams

#12. The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

Thomas Kinkade