Contemporary Quotes · Page 2

Contemporary art hates you.

— John Waters

I plead contemporary insanity.

— Anonymous

“Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.”

— Michele Brenton

“It’s a matter of when I’ll stop fighting. — Duke”

— Stephanie Witter

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

— Delphine Arnault

All history is contemporary history.

— Benedetto Croce

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

— Brian De Palma

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

— David Rees

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

— Frank Wedekind

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

— Elizabeth Bishop

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

— Aldis Hodge

“Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.”

— Carla H Krueger

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

— Edward Heath

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

— Norbert Leo Butz

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

— Fran Lebowitz

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make…

— Bill Bruford

I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction…

— Emily Perkins

“There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some. But was a…

— Francis Ray

[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life…

— Nikolai Gogol

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

— Bob Geldof

“It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.”

— Carla H Krueger

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read…

— Frederick Lenz

We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just…

— Francis Maude

When dancing for mass numbers, you can throw your hands and legs anywhere, but contemporary dance is a whole different ball game.…

— Amyra Dastur

It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works…

— Kalup Linzy

In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change…

— Steve McCurry

Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly…

— Bill Foster

I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people…

— Wade Guyton

“You don’t need a crown to be a Princess. You don’t even need a Prince. You just have to believe that you…

— Ella Dominguez

Contemporary art for me is a real driver; it propels us into the future. And at the same time, it's what connects…

— Raf Simons

It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is…

— Hugh Mackay

“My father and I used to watch a ton of old horror movies when I was growing up. ’The Creature from the…

— Richard Finney

I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I…

— Elif Batuman

If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,…

— Antoine Wilson

“His deep voice drifted to her through the crowd of women. “…my lady when she returns. Och, there ye are, Blossom,” Faolán…

— Shannon MacLeod

We need to pray for our nation like never before, and then put legs to our prayers and preach the gospel to…

— Ray Comfort

We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is…

— Edward F Edinger

Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to…

— Chris Hart

A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting'…

— Nadia Abu El Haj