Gloria Trevi Quotes

When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.

I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, "My kid could do this," and "We don't get it. What's modern art? Blah, blah, blah." And I wondered what would really happen if you gave people what they wanted, something they always look at.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.

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

I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a conversation about art history. I actually really enjoy looking at broader popular culture.

In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high and low art mix easily.

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.