Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art has to be reflective of our society.
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.