What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are… — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
“She dribbled water over his neck and back. The towel didn't quite soak up all of it, and drops raced down his… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“We need to get you laid." Despite the fact she couldn't see my face, my brow furrowed. "How is that going to… — Elizabeth Morgan Copy Share Image
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. — Genevieve Bujold Copy Share Image
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder.… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
But Stacie Orrico was my childhood hero. I was about 12 when I found her music. She is a contemporary Christian artist,… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason. — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The smoke burns slightly down my throat and to my lungs. I focus on this, and empty my head, empty the images… — Stephanie Witter 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
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 don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you? — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
“Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre” — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
“To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
