Modern Artists Quotes

I was looking at the work of the New York street artists and then discovering Basquiat and Haring after that and seeing how the contemporary art scene was, and then going back into Warhol and all that was happening in the 60s.

I think there's a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there's some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn't be a void for those people, as well.

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.

I listen to Migos. I listen to Drake a lot. Also 21 Savage, Kodak Black, XXXTentacion.

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

I'm super into dudes like Megazord, Jon Rafman, Rasmus Emanuel Svensson, Tabor Robak, and Michael Willis to name a few.

In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential.

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

I like a lot of the new artists, but there's only one I can name that stands out to me the most: Kendrick Lamar.

I like Maroon 5 and Andy Grammer, but I also like hip-hop a lot.

I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.