I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in…

— Delphine Arnault

I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life.

— Carlos Miele

I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.

— Wade Guyton

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

— Jerry Saltz

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and…

— James Keller

The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio…

— David Adjaye

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a…

— Brian Ferneyhough

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

— Steve Martin

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to…

— Cory Arcangel

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a…

— Yasumasa Morimura

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

— Michael Scott

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined…

— Juan Goytisolo

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

— Sol LeWitt

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental…

— Christo

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't…

— Agnes Varda