The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“With you and me, I don't know what anything means. We're pushing each other away and yet I don't seem to be… — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we just have to accept the fact we can't explain everything. Life happens, whether we want it to or not and… — Melissa Pearl Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's… — Michael Caton-Jones Copy Share Image
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
There's nothing easy or simple or even entertaining (in our contemporary American sense of that word) in disciplining our minds to "see"… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas… — Mariko Mori Copy Share Image
Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real… — Paolo Sorrentino 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
Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message… — Neil Bogart Copy Share Image
In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history. — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
“Michelle, since the first day I met you I knew you were the one for me. I knew that I would make… — Blaque Diamond Copy Share Image
Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people,… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“And if we don't keep moving, we won't make it to a computer in time to stop the submarine sale because we'll… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone listening to my music needs any special knowledge. They don't need to have a background in contemporary music.… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they… — James Frey Copy Share Image
For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that.… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I think it's different in fashion, because even if I would be an outsider, I would still be in the middle of… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image