Marya Mannes Quote

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.


More in Anger (ed. 1958)


A seventeenth-century painting can be modern because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A modern painting can be outdated because it was a...

A seventeenth-century painting can be modern because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A modern painting can be outdated because it was a...

A seventeenth-century painting can be modern because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A modern painting can be outdated because it was a...

A seventeenth-century painting can be modern because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A modern painting can be outdated because it was a...