Contemporary Quotes · Page 33

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of…

— Anish Kapoor

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

— Brian De Palma

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

— William A. Henry III

My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to…

— John Updike

The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns…

— Elliott Sober

“Listen up, Nic," she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. "If you die on me out here, so help me…

— Sharon K. Garner

[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

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to…

— Robert Montgomery

I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the…

— Mike Leigh

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my…

— Clarence John Laughlin

“It was just a word. It took nothing from him. It made him feel only as low as he allowed himself to…

— Roy L. Pickering Jr

For most of the movies that I've done, we've shot in a contemporary house, in contemporary clothes, speaking in a contemporary way.…

— Eve Hewson

We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

— Octavio Paz

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary…

— David Eddings

Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research…

— Tom Hooper

Bernard Hopkins' style is the way...everything he does is for a reason - little head feints, little hand movements, little shoulder rolls…

— Chris Algieri

There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in…

— David St. John

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

— Maxim Gorky

Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy…

— Paul Rotha

I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I…

— Per Petterson

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

— Donna Leon

I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a…

— Mary Ann Hoberman