Art Quote by A.S. Byatt

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned.…

— Odd Nerdrum

“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

“sometime around the turn of the seventeenth century there began what is often called the modern period, or modernity.[1] It lasted, roughly, until sometime…

— Heath White

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the…

— George Scialabba

I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a…

— Gianni Vattimo

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

— Theodor Adorno

I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today.

— Mikis Theodorakis

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

— Charles Baudelaire

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -…

— Marshall Berman

For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.

— Jessica Chastain

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

— Anthony Daniels