A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure. — Stuart Pearson Wright 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
“... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.” — Thomas Sweeney Copy Share Image
“I was between them, and as the tension sparked, I felt like a small rodent trapped between mastodons.” — Phillipa Bornikova Copy Share Image
Though the contemporary shows are good, I prefer sitcoms like my father's. — Shriya Pilgaonkar Copy Share Image
The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize. — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time,… — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new… — Thomas Cochrane Copy Share Image
The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but… — Maya Deren 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
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
“I’m now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I’ve had a chance to steel my defenses… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Common dates in romance movies: Seats in a box at the opera or ballet Walking around a beautiful foreign city Night-time picnics… — Holly Bourne Copy Share Image
Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie.… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
For me, even when I was pregnant, I wondered, Should we even have children if we're bringing them into this horrible, scary… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you… — Ian Bogost 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
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people. — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.” — Collette West Copy Share Image
