Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music,… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,… — James Keller Copy Share Image
Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter… — S. Elle Cameron Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it. — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
When I was 16, my friends and I were all starting to think about what we were going to do with our… — Haley Lu Richardson Copy Share Image
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been… — Tim Brady Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image