I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art. — David Furnish Copy Share Image
In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it. — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone. — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize. — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what… — China Chow Copy Share Image
We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to… — Massimiliano Gioni Copy Share Image
Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society. — Herbert Bayer Copy Share Image
Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of… — Kim Anderson Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,… — James Keller Copy Share Image
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Collecting contemporary art I started with some of the younger artists. Although, having a son who's an artist, I was hesitant-I think… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim,… — Delphine Arnault Copy Share Image
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
“The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of to-day is that which really… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
“The real reason that students and increasingly teachers of art history are ready to jettison the past, however, is that the refusal… — Christopher S. Wood Copy Share Image
“This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
“Looking into the mirror I ask myself: "You live in a house equipped with air conditioning. You eat tasty food. You utilize… — Marinella Venanzi Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people. — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
There are people that like contemporary art and people that like old art, and I like old art. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern. — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
“A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
