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What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?


Italo Calvino

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RAFAEL MONEO The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The...
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C. JOYBELL C. The modern human has mastered the art of building toxic homes and cities.
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PAUL GAUGUIN Sex and religion are still the great taboos in modern art.
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FORTUNA VALENTINO take [this art form] out of the barbershop and bring it to more modern times.
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JAMES MCAVOY where I was still told to my face that modern art can only be loved...by Jews.
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