I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
“He often has followed current fads and modes in an attempt to affiliate himself more firmly with the structures of contemporary existence.” — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is… — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men. — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“Most of my dates had consisted of some guy trying to sweet-talk me while I silently prayed for an asteroid to crash… — Stephanie Nelson Copy Share Image
In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer… — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. — William Kristol Copy Share Image
There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original… — Christopher Anderson Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination. — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
“I remember...watching that separation of sea and sky...and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same… — Huntley Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
[Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“I didn't put him in his place. I was acknowledging his blind spot. We all have them. It just takes the right… — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
On 'Underground,' we had used contemporary music to pull you into the present and not just look at it as a portrait… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to marry you. I just want you to give me an orgasm.” “Just the one? You have low expectations.” — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
“Humph! A text message that said, ‘What’s up, sexy?’ You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the… — N. Wood Lane Copy Share Image
Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image