“What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”
Octavio Paz
“The critic chases the artist, the artist is”
Daniel Robert O'Neill
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
Charles Baudelaire
“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”
