Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. Salvador Dali
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. Susan Sontag
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. Dave Barry
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture. Tom Stoppard
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. Paul Gauguin
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification. Will Self