modern art, n.Definitions

Modern art is the reflection of our own times. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

Modern art is no reason to paint pictures that make sense in a world today which makes no sense.

Modern art is where you paint on canvas, wipe off your brushes with a rag, and then sell the rag.

Modern art is not so much something in our art as something in our lives.

Modern art is a form of art whose history 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..

Modern art is easy enough to understand: if it bangs on a wall, it's a painting... if you can walk around it, it's a sculpture.

Modern art is able to change morals... it is able to lower the threshold of what is terrible, shocking, painful, or embarrassing. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear.

Modern art is the result of imagination without skill, just as skill without imagination is craftsmanship, which gives us wickerwork picnic baskets.